Cancer is a disease of genes gone wrong. The National Institutes of Health, hoping to speed up the identification of cancer genes, started an ambitious project in 2005 called the Cancer Genome Atlas. But now, as the Atlas project is coming to an end, researchers at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard have published a study that has scientists debating where cancer research should go next. Eric S. Lander, HMS professor of systems biology and founding director of the Broad Institute, is a co-author of the new study.
