Recent research from the Medical University of South Carolina laboratory of Russell Norris, Ph.D., challenges the notion that hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) is an isolated connective tissue ...

Growing from a single cell into a complex organism with specialized tissues and organs requires a complex and coordinated process. But the mechanical signals that guide tissue and organ ...

About half of women over 40 have dense breasts. The denser the breast tissue, the more difficult it is to spot cancer on a standard mammogram. Having dense breast tissue can make it harder to detect ...

Breast cancer awareness campaigns often focus on mammograms and self-exams. But there's another critical piece of the puzzle that has gotten far less attention until recently: breast density. A year ...

Breast cancer screening could be improved by adding “MBI” tests to 3D mammogram screenings for women with dense breast tissue—which nearly half of all U.S. women have. Called 'molecular breast imaging ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: Following my last 3-D mammogram, I received a warning letter from the mammography center regarding the possible shortfall of mammograms for dense breast tissue. I’ve never received ...

Tokyo, Japan – Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have found that the motion of unlabeled cells can be used to tell whether they are cancerous or healthy. They observed malignant ...

Fibroblasts are cells of mesenchymal origin with a range of phenotypic diversity and heterogeneity. One of the major functions of fibroblasts is the formation and turnover of the extracellular matrix ...

If your mammogram reported that you have dense breast tissue, you may wonder, what exactly does that mean for my breast health? “Having dense breast tissue is not uncommon; about 40% of women over the ...