Dr. Mina Bissell of LBNL Life Sciences in her laboratory. Photo courtesy of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. © 2010 The Regents of the University of California ...
Cell biologist Mina Bissell left Iran at age eighteen and embarked on a career in American science. Her fearless approach and unconventional thinking have helped shape ideas about how breast tumors ...
Proposed cancer therapeutic drugs based on blocking the catalytic activities of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which profoundly remodel the environment surrounding a breast cell, have performed ...
(Phys.org) —The long-standing mystery behind dormant disseminated breast tumor cells and what activates them after years and even decades of latency may have been solved. Researchers with the U.S.
Metabolism was lost in the shadows of cancer research for decades but has recently been reclaiming some of the spotlight. Now, Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences ...
It's hard to overestimate the importance of professional meetings to any scientist's career. But it is particularly crucial for women to attend, organize, and present their work at conferences, ...
Breast cancer cells, it seems, just can't do the dance. But scientist Claire Robertson wants to change that. Robertson, a bioengineer at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, says that when she watches ...
FEATUREThe Ecology of Tumors Courtesy of Nasa Ames Research CenterBy perturbing the microenvironment, wounds and infection may be key to tumor development.BY PARAIC A. KENNY, CELESTE M. NELSON, AND ...
New images are providing the first visual evidence of a long-postulated physical link by which genes can receive mechanical cues from its microenvironment. Created by integrating six different imaging ...
Metabolism was lost in the shadows of cancer research for decades but has recently been reclaiming some of the spotlight. Now, Mina Bissell, Distinguished Scientist with Berkeley Lab's Life Sciences ...
Researchers have shown that aerobic glycolysis -- glucose metabolism in the presence of oxygen -- is not the consequence of the cancerous activity of malignant cells, as has been widely believed, but ...
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