Pictured is mammary tissue of a developing mouse embryo at day 18, with cells that express both luminal protein (red) and basal protein (green). Cells in breast cancer often show this embryonic characteristic of expressing both proteins.Credit: Salk Institute
這一結論發表在2018年8月7日的《Cell Reports》雜志上,題為“Single-Cell Transcriptomes Distinguish Stem Cell State Changes and Lineage Specification Programs in Early Mammary Gland Development”。
A quote from Italian surgeon Francesco Durante, who in 1874 was struck by the similarities between cells in the most malignant cancers and the embryonic cells of the organ in which the cancer originated.Credit: Salk Institute