Two such human long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs), metastasis-associated lung adenocarcinoma transcript 1 (MALAT1) and multiple endocrine neoplasia-β (MENβ)/nuclear paraspeckle assembly transcript 1 (NEAT1), are highly conserved and non-essential RNAs whose abundance is correlated with many cancers, metastasis and poor patient outcomes [5,6,7,8,9,10]. Here, MALAT1 is linked to cancer.