“…As such, their expression and function are often altered in disease states (Kleinbrink et al, 2021;Yang et al, 2021;Anderson and Anderson, 2022;Dietlein et al, 2022;Erdogan et al, 2022) with selected examples now being used as diagnostic markers for various diseases including cancers (Li et al, 2019;Deng and Zou, 2022;Najafi et al, 2022;Zhang et al, 2022). Among these, one particular lncRNA called LINC-PINT (P53 Induced long Non-coding Transcript) appears exceptional because of its universalized functions and relationship to the famous tumor suppressor gene P53 (He et al, 2021;Bukhari et al, 2022). Indeed, like P53, LINC-PINT was first proposed as an oncogene but later revealed as a tumor suppressor in human cancers.…”