A poorly understood cancer of childhood has just become less mysterious. A new animal model identifies three pathways that underlie the progression to rhabdomyosarcoma (pages 1276–1280).
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Cavenee, W. Muscling in on rhabdomyosarcoma. Nat Med 8, 1200–1201 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm1102-1200
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