Boffins grow breasts on mice

[Professur]

Researchers have managed to grow human breast tissue on mice as part of an investigation into how breast cancer develops in humans.

Genetically-modified mice are often used in cancer research, but breast cancer works differently in mice than in humans. The hope is that by studying the transplanted tissue, researchers will get an insight into the early stages of the disease.

First reported in the medical journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, this particular research sounds very plausible.

Previous attempts to grow human breasts on mice have only used epithelial cells. According to Nature these cells line the milk ducts, and are where breast cancers start. In this experiment, two types of cell are transplanted: the epithelial cells and fibroblasts, or support cells.

The fibroblasts are blasted with X-Rays before being transplanted. The research team. led by Weinberg of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Boston, used cells from women who had had breast reduction surgery. Weinberg thinks the irradiated fibroblasts help the epithelial cells to survive, but isn’t quite sure how.

If the fibroblasts were made to produce a protein present in tumours, the epithelial cells became cancerous. This, the researchers say, suggests that latent mutations emerge, or are switched on by the protein. ®

Um .....


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[Nixy]

Hey...if it helps cure cancer...

 

[HomeLAN]

Boffins are growing these breasts on the mice? After they discovered a new form of carbon? Busy, busy boffins.

 

[tonksy]

*scratches head

[blondemoment]how do they walk with boobies in the way?[/blondemoment]

 

[Gato_Solo]

*scratches head

[blondemoment]how do they walk with boobies in the way?[/blondemoment]

Uhhh...pectoral muscle developement?

Dayumn...perhaps they have the breasts on their back so the male rats don't have to do it 'human-style'...

 

[Oz]

Hmm, if they are looking for a gunea pig (or Ozmouse, as the case may be).......I'll volunteer, always fancied having a pair of breasts of me own

 

[Gato_Solo]

Hmm, if they are looking for a gunea pig (or Ozmouse, as the case may be).......I'll volunteer, always fancied having a large sumptuous pair of breasts of me own

That would never happen, Oz. You'd never leave the house, and eventually starve to death. Can't have that on anyones mind, now can we?...

 

[Oz]

That would never happen, Oz. You'd never leave the house, and eventually starve to death. Can't have that on anyones mind, now can we?...

Dude, if I got a pair of funbags in me hands then anyone's mind is the last thing I'm worried about


Oz
Stocking up on vitamin tablets and bottled water

 

[Gato_Solo]

Dude, if I got a pair of funbags in me hands then anyone's mind is the last thing I'm worried about


Oz
Stocking up on vitamin tablets and bottled water

Just pray they don't give you the opposite formula that grows mice on breasts...

 

[BeardofPants]

Hey Gato, interesting set of man-boobies ya got there.

 

[Oz]

Just pray they don't give you the opposite formula that grows mice on breasts...

Aw man, I've got such a great gif I could post after that line

Trouble is it'll get me banned if I do

*contemplates*

I'll be back to this thread later..............

 

[Gato_Solo]

Aw man, I've got such a great gif I could post after that line

Trouble is it'll get me banned if I do

*contemplates*

I'll be back to this thread later..............

Gee...it's getting so you can't leave the door open anymore...

I was anticipating a joke there

 

[Oz]

Gee...it's getting so you can't leave the door open anymore...

I was anticipating a joke there

Patience man.........it'll be a visual joke......just gotta wait until the admins ain't looking when I post it

 

[Gato_Solo]

Patience man.........it'll be a visual joke......just gotta wait until the admins ain't looking when I post it

At last...somebody who appreciates the lost art of the 'straight-man'...