Salk Scientists Use an Old Theory to Discover New Targets in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have studied organ development in mice to unravel how breast cancers, and perhaps other cancers, develop in people. Their findings provide new ways to predict and personalize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.