Summary Hundreds of genes influence how tall a person is, but most make an imperceptible difference—perhaps a millimeter, for example. Now, a group studying the
Setting out to isolate circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in the blood of cancer patients, Cima et al.instead noticed that clusters, rather than single cells, abounded.
The completion of the human genome sequence more than a decade ago was an indisputable triumph for biomedical research. And more recently, efforts such as