HSCI researchers sampled biopsies from women participating in the Nurses' Health Study. In healthy breast tissue (pictured above), the percentage of cells expressing molecular...
An international scientific collaborative led by the Harvard Stem Cell Institute’s Kornelia Polyak, MD, PhD, has discovered why women who give birth in their early twenties are less likely to eventually develop breast cancer than women who don't, triggering a search for a way to confer this protective state on all women.... Read more about Predicting individual breast cancer risk may be possible