Correction to: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41392-022-01151-3, published online 01 September 2022

After online publication of the article1, the authors noticed one inadvertent mistake occurred in introduction that needs to be corrected. The correct text was provided as follows. The original article has been corrected.

In the 1920s, Otto Warburg observed for the first time that tumors consume more glucose than surrounding normal tissue, leading him to propose the phenomenon of aerobic glycolysis, wherein glucose can be fermented to produce lactate instead of carbon dioxide, even in the presence of oxygen; this phenomenon is now known as the Warburg effect.