Crowds and power - coordinated in vitro development of a benign breast lesion

Abstract

We have discovered an organoid culture approach that recapitulates morphology and coordinated development of a benign breast tumor. This system may be useful to groups investigating normal mammary gland biology and coordination of collective cell behavior in the mammary gland.

Keywords

• collective cell behavior
• mammary gland
• usual ductal hyperplasia
• organoids
• spheroids