Berkeley Lab study shows how breast cell communities organise into breast tissue
In biology, the key to a healthy life is organisation. Cells that properly organise themselves into communities live long and prosper, whereas disorganised cells can become cancerous. A study by researchers with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) of the different types of cells that make up the human breast shows that not only do cells possess an innate ability to self-organise into communities, but these communities of different types of cells can also organise themselves with respect to one another to form and maintain healthy tissue. Understanding this ability of different types of cell communities to self-organise into tissue may help explain how the processes of stem cell differentiation and tissue architecture maintenance are coordinated. It might also lead to a better understanding of what goes wrong in cancer...