But adaptation to other novel environments is possible, as Vander Heiden discovered when his group implanted human breast cancer cells into either mammary fat or the brains of mice. Though the ...

Breast cancer that has spread to lymph nodes may be treated more aggressively than localized cancer, because it has a greater potential to travel to other parts of the body. You have thousands of ...

The mammary epithelium derives from multipotent mammary stem cells (MaSCs) that engage into differentiation during embryonic development. However, adult MaSCs maintain the ability to reactivate ...

These glands aren't true sweat glands or mammary glands—but are described as somewhat between the two. Montgomery tubercles help to: Lubricate the areola and nipple with oily secretions to prevent ...

There is some evidence that they may be hereditary. Third nipples form before birth, after the breasts and mammary glands develop. Third nipples in males are more common than in females but they can ...