Sentences with phrase «normal breast precursor»

New research provides critical insights into how normal breast precursor cells may be genetically vulnerable to develop into cancer.

Their studies revealed that a subset of normal breast precursor cells, called luminal progenitors, have dangerously short telomeres and display a correspondingly high level DNA damage response localized at their chromosome ends.

Scientists discovered that a particular class of normal breast precursor cells have extremely short chromosome ends (known as telomeres).