‘Liquid Biopsy’ Promises Early Detection for Cancer
Figure 1. A new blood test looks for DNA shed by tumor cells, such as these pancreatic cancer cells. A team of researchers has taken a major step toward one [more...]
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Dynamic Microenvironments: Finding the Right Cancer Therapy
With so many promising cancer therapies emerging from research labs, a key challenge for biomedical researchers is to develop tools that accurately predict treatment efficacy against a patient’s specific cancer, [more...]
POC Medical Raises $21M for Portable Breast Cancer Screener
POC Medical Systems said today that it raised $21 million in Series A financing to fund clinical testing and commercialization of its portable breast cancer screening test, MammoAlert. The round [more...]
GRAIL Announces Circulating Cell-free Genome Atlas (CCGA) Study
RAIL, Inc., a life sciences company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, announced today that it has commenced its first multi-center clinical study, the [more...]
Unlocking DNA and Cancer Mysteries Using Nanopores
Cancer thrives when mutated cells undergo frequent division. Most anti-cancer drugs work by inserting themselves in between the DNA base pairs that encode our genetic information. This process is known [more...]
Using Light to Control Genome Editing
MIT researchers have added an extra layer of control to the CRISPR gene-editing approach, by making the system responsive to light (Image credit: MIT News) The genome-editing system known as [more...]
Owlstone Medical Wins $7M for Cancer-detecting Breathalyzer
Figure 1 ReCIVA breath sampler, which is used in the lung cancer detection project (Image credit: Owlstone Medical) Owlstone Medical has raised £4.9 million ($7 million) to fund the ongoing [more...]
3D Hydrogel Biochips Superior in Detecting Early Stage Bowel Cancer
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB RAS), the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry (IBCh) and a number of other Russian [more...]
On-the-spot Diagnosis of Certain Cancers With Sensitive Bionsensor
The two arms of the interferometer used to detect microRNAs in urine samples. The top one is the reference arm while the bottom one is the sensing arm ( Image [more...]
Device Could Decrease Time Between Cancer Detection and Treatments
The acoustophoretic microfluidics device the team built allows it to utilize the pressure generated in the small device to manipulate small fluid samples such as blood drawn during an examination [more...]
Digital Microfluidics Keeps Track of Quick-Fire Cell Signals
Amidst the crackle of cellular signaling, it can be hard to distinguish between cells that are quick on the draw, and those that take a long time “drawing a bead” [more...]
Breath Test for Detecting Head and Neck Cancer with Micro Sensor
Each sensor is composed of a silicon disk 500 micrometres in diameter that is covered by a polymer and suspended by four minuscule “bridges” with integrated piezoresistors Inhale, then exhale. [more...]
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