RACK1 has been confirmed to take part in multiple biological events, including cell migration(Li et al., 2012b), virus infection (Majzoub et al., 2014), neural development (Wehner et al., 2011; Xu et al., 2015), angiogenesis (Berns et al., 2000; Zhou et al., 2014) and cancer metastasis (Li et al., 2012a). The gene discussed is RACK1; the disease is cancer.