Reported roles for miR-758-3p include the regulation of proliferation, migration and invasion of carcinoma cells (Wu & Liu 2020, Liu et al. 2021, Xiao et al. 2021) via modulation of c-Myc and AKT signalling and long non-coding (lincRNA) and circular RNA (circRNA) actions (Ding et al. 2021, Xiao et al. 2021, Zhang et al. 2021). Here, AKT1 is linked to carcinoma.