Highly Sensitive Microfluidic Device for Capturing CTCs
April 30, 2019 | Terry Sharrer
Much of the enthusiasm for liquid biopsy in cancer research comes from knowing there are circulating tumor cells in blood. In this piece, researchers at the University of Illinois and Queensland University “report on a novel multi-flow microfluidic (MFM) system for the separation of CTCs with high purity. The microchannel takes advantage of inertial migration of cells. The lateral migration of cells strongly depends on cell size in our microchannel, and label-free separation of CTCs from WBCs is thus achieved without sophisticated sample preparation steps and external controls required by affinity-based and active approaches.” MORE
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