Prof.Sun Shuhan and his group at the Department of Medical Genetics,Second Military Medical University have made great progress in understanding the role of IncRNAs in tumor biology,particular in the metastasis of HCC.Recently they published their research findings in an article"A long noncoding RNA activated by TGF-βpromotes the invasion-metastasis cascade in hepatocellular carcinoma"in Cancer Cell(2014,25(5):666—681).