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The featured image is a lung adenocarcinoma stained with a novel, highly sensitive and specific antibody recognizing the ALK oncoprotein (brown staining) and counterstained with hematoxylin (blue staining). The tumor was shown to harbor a rearrangement of the ALK locus by genetic analysis. This assay will facilitate the routine identification of ALK-rearranged lung adenocarcinomas in clinical practice and detect lung cancers that may be responsive to ALK inhibitors. For details, see the article by Mino-Kenudson and colleagues on page 1561 of this issue.