Sentences with phrase «when normal breast cells»

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.

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When the breast is empty, the cells of the alveoli return to their normal shape and breast milk production resumes.

First author Adam Skibinski, M.D. / Ph.D., student at Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences at Tufts University, said «We've known for a long time that breast cells can lose their normal identity when they become cancerous, but we are now realizing that normal cells can change their characteristics as well in response to transcription factors like TAZ.