osophila as an emerging model to study metastasis

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and †The Genes and Development Graduate Program, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, and ‡Program in Developmental Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. Correspondence: Georg Halder. E-mail: ghalder@mdanderson.org comment reviews Published: 25 March 2004 Genome Biology 2004, 5:216 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http://genomebiology.com/2004/5/4/216 © 2004 BioMed Central Ltd reports Abstract Metastasis is the primary cause of human cancer-related deaths. Two recent studies describe a system for testing how multiple genetic events synergize to promote neoplastic growth and metastasis in Drosophila, paving...