This Week in Nature: May 7, 2009

May 07, 2009

Published in Nature's early online edition, researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center led by Joan Massagué have found genes that control breast cancer metastasis to the brain. The BBC reports on it here.

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