An analysis reveals that cancer cells remotely prepare distant sites for tumour spread in an organ-specific manner, by deploying organ-seeking extracellular vesicles. See Article p.329
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Rak, J. Organ-seeking vesicles. Nature 527, 312–314 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15642
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