Sentences with phrase «normal breast cells»

:: Washington Post Bisphenol A can alter genes, study finds Bisphenol A, the widely used compound in polycarbonate plastic, has the ability to alter the activity of genes in normal breast cells in ways that resemble what is found in extremely dangerous breast cancers, according to a new study.

Dr. David Gilley's laboratory at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and Dr. Connie Eaves» laboratory at the BC Cancer Agency's Terry Fox Laboratory in Vancouver, Canada, collaborated to determine how telomeres are regulated in different types of normal breast cells.

The team identified DDX3 while studying the effects of cigarette smoke on normal breast cells by looking for changes in gene expression.

At Berkeley Lab, Yaswen engineered normal breast cells, donated by patients who had undergone breast - reduction surgery, to carry a molecular construct that caused the cells to express MYC only when a particular chemical compound was applied.

Assistant Professor Camila dos Santos of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) is studying stem cells in the breast for clues about what changes occur when normal breast cells become cancerous.

Researchers have identified cellular changes that may play a role in converting normal breast cells into tumors...

But the phenomenon remained largely unexplored until a team led by cell biologist Michael Overholtzer of Harvard Medical School in Boston recently saw the same thing while working with a line of normal breast cells.

They found that the protein seems to help maintain several traits in normal breast cells, including the ability to adhere to other epithelial cells, and the presence of molecules marking the cells as differentiated and not capable of self - renewal like breast stem cells.

The researchers found that the virus binds to the CD21 receptor on normal breast cells, leading to infection.

Now, results of a new study by Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists suggests a powerful role for the protein in normal breast cells, acting as a tumor suppressor that halts abnormal cell growth.

In their study published online May 9 in the journal Oncogene, scientist Saraswati Sukumar, Ph.D.; her graduate student Wei Wen Teo; and their colleagues show that cells without HOXA5 have an increased capacity to renew themselves and are more invasive than normal breast cells — in short, they become more tumor like.

The research, using cells from the Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank and due to be published in Nature Communications, also shows that the epigenetic changes are inherited as long as the cell divides, and that the team's manipulations permanently and negatively affected the biology of a normal breast cell from a healthy individual.

Also widely believed to be helpful are soy / isoflavone supplements which stimulate the growth of normal breast cells.

Normal breast cells and cancer cells have insulin receptors on them.