Human mammary glands contain sugars that avian influenza can latch onto to infect cells, researchers report August 8 at medRxiv.org. The finding, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, raises the ...

We're all born with mammary glands—better known as breasts. These are made of glandular tissue, fat and the ligaments that ...

New Role For Brain Chemical Found In Mammary Glands, With Implications For Breast Cancer Research Date: May 12, 2003 Source: University Of California, Santa Cruz Summary: Researchers at the ...

Lab-grown organoids mimic the complexity of organs in vitro and provide insights into biology and disease. Researchers have leveraged organoids developed from mammary glands or tumors to study breast ...

The mammary gland, essential for nurturing offspring, exhibits significant variation across species. These breast organoids (bottom) resemble human breast biopsies (top) in cell type and architecture.

Tissue from cow mammary glands (shown) host a birdlike protein (purple) that bird flu viruses (blue) use to break inside cells. R.K. Nelli et al/Emerging Infectious Diseases 2024 ...