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Nature Medicine 13, 1289–1291 (1 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/nm1107-1289

A MSC-ing link in metastasis?

Douglas R Hurst & Danny R Welch

Metastases are derived from distinct subpopulations of cells that exist within a tumor. In a classic example, the melanoma cell subtype B16 can be selected from a primary tumor and enriched for an increased tendency to colonize lung.