Unlocking the secrets of DNA to cure disease, slow aging.
Researchers flush out an important cancer gene with a new set of tools .
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology RhoC discovery, detailed by New Scientist . Click here for a special offer. Click here for our free newsletter. After the diagnosis itself, the worst news a cancer patient can get is that a piece of tumor has broken off, spreading the disease to other parts of the body. Now two groups of researchers have identified several genes that seem to cause cells of the deadliest form of skin cancer, melanoma, to spread.