MALAT1 and atherosclerosis: Two recent papers have demonstrated the involvement of lncRNAs metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) (Huangfu et al., 2018) and nuclear-enriched abundant transcript 1 (NEAT1) (Huang-Fu et al., 2017) in oxLDL-induced CD36-mediated lipid uptake by macrophages, which plays an important role in the development of atherosclerosis.