Monday, August 1, 2016

IBM Says New Chip Can Filter Blood For Signs Of Cancer

Particles that might hold markers for cancer pass through a silicon obstacle course that sorts them by size.

Cancer starts small-at the nanometer scale, as DNA, RNA, and proteins develop harmful defects. So cancer detection has been moving down in size-toward "liquid biopsies" that filter blood and other bodily fluids to detect problems in cells or pieces of cells before tumors emerge.

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