Mina Bissell has been recognized for her lifetime contributions to the fields of breast cancer research, the enhanced role of extracellular matrix (ECM) and the nucleus environment to …

For over three decades, Mina Bissell, a Distinguished Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has investigated how cells interact with their environment. Her research has …

She shares the two key experiments that proved the prevailing wisdom about cancer growth was wrong. This talk was presented at an official TED conference. Mina Bissell studies how cancer …

Her group has demonstrated that tissue architecture provides cancer-driving genes with instructions. In three-dimensional cultured human cells and in animals, breast cancer cells …

Bissell and her colleague, William Ole Peterson, have developed 3D culture in cancer research. They have shown non-tumorgenic (normal-like) mammary epithelial cells form monolayer …

Her unconventional findings, optimism, and persistency produced some of the most fascinating observations on the influence of tissue architecture in the genesis and progression of tumors …

Jul 1, 2023 · Humanized mice using immunodeficient mice bearing human tumor and human immune cells represent emerging models to test both efficacy and toxicity of cancer …

Jun 9, 2020 · This review discusses the current immunocompetent and immunocompromised mouse models of human tumors that are used to evaluate the effectiveness of …

This chapter discusses Mina Bissell's pathbreaking research on cancer. Along with her colleagues and students, Bissell focused her attention on how the causal pathways regulating cell …

Apr 29, 2025 · Establishing tumors in mouse models is central to cancer research, with different approaches tailored to studying tumorigenesis, progression, and therapeutic response. The …