News tagged with breast tissue

Researchers discover what cancer cells need to travel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells must prepare for travel before invading new tissues, but new Cornell research has found a possible way to stop these cells from ever hitting the road.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New imaging technique accurately finds cancer cells, fast

The long, anxious wait for biopsy results could soon be over, thanks to a tissue-imaging technique developed at the University of Illinois.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough breast cancer therapy reduces mastectomies, saves breast

A new treatment developed and tested by University of Oklahoma researchers not only killed large breast cancer tumors, but reduced the need for mastectomies by almost 90 percent. The latest results appear in an upcoming issue ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breast cancer risk tied to grandmother's diet

Eating too much fat in pregnancy may be an indulgence that has a less-than-beneficial effect on generations to come, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center. Their unique study in rats shows that ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

How do you solve a problem like MARIA?

A chance conversation between Alan Preece, Professor of Medical Physics in the Bristol Oncology Centre, and Dr Ian Craddock from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has led to the development ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

Teeny-tiny X-ray vision

The tubes that power X-ray machines are shrinking, improving the clarity and detail of their Superman-like vision. A team of nanomaterial scientists, medical physicists, and cancer biologists at the University of North Carolina ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Scientists identify, isolate adult mammary stem cells in mice

For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 31, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover critical rotational motion in cells

In a study that holds major implications for breast cancer research as well as basic cell biology, scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a rotational motion ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Using cotton candy to create bloodflow routes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cotton candy has delighted children for a century. Now it may have found a new role: helping scientists grow replacement tissues for people. The flossy stuff may be just right for creating networks of blood ...

Chemistry /

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

A new cancer vaccine starves tumors of blood

A DNA-vaccine that restricts the supply of blood to tumours has been developed by scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet. The vaccine slows the growth of breast cancer tumours in mice.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 24, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sugary band-aid may help heal post-operative tissue

A compound found in sunless tanning spray may help to heal wounds following surgery, according to new results published by plastic surgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 31, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Removing 2mm around breast cancer tumors prevents residual disease in 98 percent of patients

Removing an extra two millimetres around an area of invasive breast cancer is sufficient to minimise any residual disease in 98 per cent of patients, according to research published in the November issue of IJCP, the International Jo ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Stroma may provide key to better cancer treatment

A project focusing on the scar tissue surrounding cancer tumours aims to provide new targets for drugs for treating pancreatic cancer, the fifth highest cause of cancer deaths in the UK.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Screening for breast cancer without X-rays: Lasers and sound merge in promising diagnostic technique

X-ray mammography is an important diagnostic tool in the fight against breast cancer, but it has certain drawbacks that limit its effectiveness. For example, it can give in false positive and negative results; ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Transporter could help breast cancer cells commit suicide

Researchers are trying to open a door for a killer that breast cancer cells shut out.

Chemistry /

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Breast

The breast is the upper ventral region of an animal’s torso, particularly that of mammals, including human beings. The breasts of a female primate’s body contain the mammary glands, which secrete milk used to feed infants.

Both men and women develop breasts from the same embryological tissues. However, at puberty female sex hormones, mainly estrogens, promote breast development, which does not happen with men. As a result women's breasts become more prominent than men's.

For more information about Breast, read the full article at Wikipedia.
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