More women are now undergoing early tests that reveal pre-cancerous breast tissue. Early diagnosis can save lives but in reality few of those lesions go on to become tumours - and doctors have no good way of predicting which ones will. As a result many women have to undergo surgery who might never develop the disease! All that may change soon. Researchers from the Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have discovered a new breast-cancer therapy that partially reverses the cancerous state in cultured breast tumour cells and prevents cancer development in mice. This could pave the