Could NASA Technology Help Uncover the Cause of Breast Cancer?
Breast cancer is a very serious disease that accounts for almost 25 percent of all cancers found in women and scientists and researchers are working desperately to try and find a cure.
Breast cancer is a very serious disease that accounts for almost 25 percent of all cancers found in women and scientists and researchers are working desperately to try and find a cure. Although treatments have come a long way in the past 50 years, we are still a long way off completely irradiating breast cancer, but with the help of NASA, we may be one step closer.
Recent studies have been carried out by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California that has applied the same techniques as used for examining bacteria in spacecraft assembly rooms to apply to a human breast ductal fluid. This is the first-ever study of its kind, so is very exciting for the team.
The research concluded that there were notable differences between the ductal fluid found in women who had suffered with breast cancer and those that did not. This is a fantastic breakthrough in being able to gain a deeper understanding of the distinct relationship between breast ductal microbiome and breast cancer.
Parag Vaishampayan, a scientist at JPL, contributed genetic analysis techniques to a new medical study. The research found significant differences between bacteria populations in healthy subjects and women with a history of breast cancer.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
There were 48 women who took part in the study, which consisted of 23 women with no history of breast cancer and 25 that had already undergone breast cancer treatment. The researchers then used the same genomic sequencing technique they use at NASA to catalog the results, and further studies are being carried out as we speak.
Although this is only just the beginning of the research, it is a promising start. We already know that all breast cancer begins in the ducts, so it makes sense to research this area more thoroughly in hopes to find a way to cure or prevent the disease. With so many more areas to explore researchers are sure to uncover more helpful data to analyze to help win this battle against cancer.
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Rachel Kowalski
Rachel Kowalski is the Cybersecurity Analyst at TrendinTech, where she covers vulnerabilities, ransomware, supply chain attacks, nation-state operations and the security rules shaping organizations in the United States and Europe. Before moving into journalism she worked as a threat intelligence analyst at a security vendor and later reported for CyberScoop and the security desk at Wired, covering the SolarWinds compromise and the ransomware wave that hit hospitals and pipelines. Rachel holds a Master of Science in Cybersecurity from the Georgia Institute of Technology and attends Black Hat and DEF CON in Las Vegas each year, where she follows research from the security community. She writes to make risks and countermeasures understandable to people who are not specialists.
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