Starre Julia Vartan

In my first piece for Nature, I was assigned an embargoed study (it hadn’t published yet) and had to put this story together over a weekend. I was able to speak with a principal researcher, Shirene Loi as she was on her way to Berlin for the prestigious ESMO conference, where she was presenting her important findings that breast cancer risk can be reduced by the immune mechanisms that occur in the breast during pregnancy and breastfeeding, especially. Fascinating new research that can benefit all people as we search for a breast-cancer vaccine for those immunity affected cancers.