Microchip Can Spot Tumor Cells In Blood
This highly sensitive microchip can hopefully save lives, since it's when cancer spreads to other parts of the body worsens one's chance of survival. 9 out 10 deaths in cancer are because the spreading process because the cancer spreads to other parts of the body.
The device can isolate, count and analyze circulating tumor cells from a blood sample, the team at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School said yesterday.
The device can isolate, count and analyze circulating tumor cells from a blood sample, the team at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School said yesterday.
The microchip they made uses a credit card sized silicon chip. It has super tiny posts that are painted with antibodies that recognize cancer cells.
As blood flows over the chip, these micro posts act like super-glue, entrapping these cancer cells and leaving healthy blood cells alone. Out of 116 tested, only one failed to detect tumor cells, so that's considered a great success, but not perfect. All we can do is keep donating money to cancer research, so we can stomp out cancer once and for all.
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