Cancer can now be Detected Faster and Cheaper with an Innovatory ‘lab-on-chip’
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Researchers at the University of Kansas, the University of Kansas Cancer Center and KU Medical Center have recently invented a new ultrasensitive diagnostic device that could be beneficial in detecting cancer.
The ‘lab-on-chip’ is called as ‘3D Nanopatterned Microfluid Chip’. This device could allow doctors to detect cancer quickly from just a droplet of blood or plasma, which would lead to appropriate interference and better results for patients.
The study explains that the device identifies and diagnoses cancer by ‘filtering’ exosomes; which are small vesicles produced by eukaryotic cells. In the case of cancer cells, exosomes subsume biological information leading to tumor formation.