Lung metastases are a devastating reality for over half of cancer patients whose tumors spread beyond their initial sites.

Looking at human lung tumor samples from patients with metastatic breast cancer, the scientists noted a similar translational program as in mice and an elevated expression of the NMDA receptor ...

it’s one of the least-studied aspects of cancer—perhaps because it is one of the trickiest to investigate. Metastases can be established in mice either by injecting cancer cells into organs or the ...