Following the successful meeting organized last year in May 2014, a special issue of Cell Adhesion & Migration on Tenascins: Defining their role in tissue homeostasis and cancer has been published [Volume 9, Issue 1-2, 2015]. This issue is co-edited by Kim Midwood & Gertraud Orend and you access it on the publisher’s website. The foreword signed by the co-editors is in open access.