Gene Found that is Essential to Maintaining Breast and Cancer Stem Cells
![Dr. Muthusamy Thangaraju, biochemist, (left) and Graduate Student Rajneesh Pathania. Image-GRU Senior Photographer Phil Jones Gene Found that is Essential to Maintaining Breast and Cancer Stem Cells](https://alaska-native-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/image12-05-2015-14.24.34.jpg)
AUGUSTA, Ga. – The gene and hormone soup that enables women to breastfeed their newborns also can be a recipe for breast cancer, particularly when the first pregnancy is after age 30. Researchers have now found that the gene DNMT1 is essential to maintaining breast, or mammary, stem cells, that enable normal rapid growth of […]