October 12, 2006
A research team including Bioengineering professor Dan Fletcher has created a the first model for studying how breast tissue is shaped and structured during development.
The model may shed new light on how the misbehavior of only a few cells can facilitate cancer, by showing that the development of breast tissue is controlled not only by geometry as well as genetics. The model should also be applicable to the study of tissue development in other organs as well.
Other members of the team included Celeste Nelson, Jamie Inman and Mina Bissell from Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, and Bioengineering postdoc Martijn VanDuijn. The findings were published in the October 13, 2006 issue of the journal Science.
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