It’s possible that mammary glands ‘remember’ pregnancy. New research suggests that pregnancy causes epigenetic changes that can help increase milk production in future pregnancies. When comparing mice that had been pregnant before with first-time moms, researchers found that mammary glands showed signs of milk production more quickly in the mice that had already had litters. […]
New research is providing clues as to how breast cancer cells alter bone cells. This is pretty big news, because breast cancer becomes deadlier and harder to treat if it spreads to the bone. By understanding how breast cancer gains a foothold into bone, scientists can hopefully get a step ahead of it. There is […]
Not all cases of breast cancer are the same, and patients can require very different treatments depending of the type of tumors involved. Because different types of tumors contain different receptors, it’s important to tailor the treatments in order to be as effective as possible. Now, researchers have found that a virus could prove to […]