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Mice Get Human Breasts

Posted by michael on from the mice-get-all-the-luck dept.

cavehobbit writes "Nature.com reports: Lab mice have grown tissue more usually confined to a bra - lumps of human breast. The growths should help researchers work out how cancer develops. My only question is: Will Logitech or Microsoft be first to market...."

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  1. Medical Marvel in Minnie by MissMarvel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Breast cancer hits one in eight women at some time in their life. One in eight! That's a frightening prospect, yet this is the risk that faces our mothers, sisters, wives, and daughters.

    This new tissue transplant procedure in mouse provides what, up until now, has not been available... living human breast tissue on which to experiment.

    Despite massive funding of breast cancer research over the past 20+ years, we still know very little about the cellular mechanism by which breast cancer takes hold. I'd say this new procedure is a move in the right direction and gives the female population new hope.