Berkeley Lab Researchers Develop New Weapon in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
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Mina Bissell, Curt Hines, and Irene Kuhn of the Biological Systems & Engineering Division led the development of the first clinically-relevant mouse model of human breast cancer to successfully express functional estrogen receptor positive adenocarcinomas. This model should be a powerful tool for testing therapies for aggressive ER+ breast cancers and for studying luminal cancers. Read more at the Berkeley Lab News Center.