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Professor Richard O. Hynes, director of the Center for Cancer Research, holds a glass slide containing thousands of bits of DNA that have been exposed to genetic material from tumor cells. He and former postdoctoral fellow Edwin A. Clark (left), now at Millennium Predictive Medicine in Cambridge, collaborated with other scientists to identify the gene responsible for cancer metastasis.

Scientists identify gene responsible for tumor metastasis in cancer

August 9, 2000

MIT researchers identify the genes responsible for cancer cells' ability to migrate within the body

August 2, 2000

Initial results encouraging in clinical trials of new brain cancer treatment

February 11, 1998

New cancer clinical trials are encouraging

February 3, 1998

Gene work could aid vaccines, cancer therapy

January 24, 1996

Reactor used in trial of new cancer therapy

September 14, 1994

Chivian details consequences of environmental damage

February 2, 1994

Ingredient shows promise for cancer vaccines

April 28, 1993

Melanoma Breakthrough Reported by Biologists

November 4, 1992