Whitehead Institute

As promising as some treatments are in lab tests, unfortunately they don’t always meet hopes when translated to the real world. Now scientists have found out why a class of cancer drugs failed in human trials, and gone on to identify another drug that could finally make the treatment work.

Researchers have built a hydrogel scaffold said to mimic the environment found within the human breast. And by using it to grow real mammary tissue, scientists are hoping to uncover new insights into how tumors spread through this part of the body.