Mini breast grown for breast cancer

Researchers have grown a mini breast using patients' discarded tissues, a breakthrough that will help provide insights into the behaviour of breast cancer and develop treatments for the deadly disease. The researchers used a transparent gel in which cells divide and spread, similar to the developing mammary gland during puberty. "This technological break-through provides the basis for many research projects, both those aimed to understand how breast cancer cells acquire aggressive traits, as well as to elucidate how adult stem cells function in normal regeneration," said head researcher Christina Scheel of German Research Centre for Environmental Health.