It's all in the details: methods in breast development and cancer
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* Corresponding author: Mohamed Bentires-Alj Bentires@fmi.ch
1 Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Maulbeerstr. 66; CH-4058 Basel, Switzerland
2 Breast Biology Group School of Cancer and Imaging Sciences, Paterson Institute for Cancer Research, University of Manchester, Wilmslow Road, Manchester M20 4BX, UK
3 Netherlands Cancer Institute; Division of Molecular Biology (P2), Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands
4 Breakthrough Breast Cancer Centre, Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB, UK
5 Division of Cancer Sciences and Molecular Pathology, Section of Pathology and Gene Regulation, Western Infirmary, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G11 6NT, UK
Breast Cancer Research 2009, 11:305 doi:10.1186/bcr2346
Published: 14 August 2009Abstract
The inaugural European Network for Breast Development and Cancer (ENBDC) meeting on 'Methods in Mammary Gland Development and Cancer' was held in Weggis, Switzerland last April. The goal was to discuss the details of techniques used to study mammary gland biology and tumourigenesis. Highlights of this meeting included the use of four-colour fluorescence for protein co-localisation in tissue microarrays, genome analysis at single cell resolution, technical issues in the isolation of normal and tumour stem cells, and the use of mouse models and mammary gland transplantations to elucidate gene function in mammary development and to study drug resistance in breast cancer.