POSTS TAGGED AS liquid biopsy

Liquid Biopsy for Monitoring Treatment Response

ctDNA Liquid Biopsy
Most interest in liquid biopsies has focused on less invasive disease diagnosis. This piece, however, draws attention to [MORE]

Microcontact Printing with APTES

Microfluidics
Microfluidic devices are used to determine biomarker concentrations in fluids, such as blood—as in liquid assays for cancer. This piece [MORE]

500+ Gene Liquid Biopsy

Blood Sample
Liquid biopsy isn’t yet the gold standard for tumor analysis, but it is moving rapidly in that direction. This [MORE]

Liquid Biopsy for Circulating Tumor Cells for $30

MagSifter
That’ll be the day when a life-saving, minimally invasive diagnostic for metastatic cancer costs $30. But that, at least, is [MORE]

Cell-Free DNA as a Diagnostic for Many Diseases

When cells die, either naturally or from disease, their protein and DNA debris ends up in circulating blood. Mass spectroscopy [MORE]

An Update on “Fantastic Voyage”

Fantastic Voyage Illustration
Imagine gold nanoparticles to which long and short sequences of DNA are attached. The large sequences are receptors [MORE]

The Microfluidics “Revolution”

Droplet Chip Photo Wang-Lab- JHU
By now, bio-medical laboratories should have moved to storage their mass spectrometers, flow cytometers, and blood [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticle Strips for Acquiring Blood Biomarkers

 
High Precision Assay
With a strip test that resembles those for pregnancy or urine glucose, scientists in Moscow have invented a [MORE]

Biomarker Stroke Diagnosis in 10 Minutes

Lab Tests
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay has been an essential tool for diagnosis of many diseases based on antibodies found in blood. [MORE]

“Velcro” Chip Snags Circulating Tumor Cells

NanoVelcro Chip
Researchers at the California NanoSystems Institute (Los Angeles) have developed a nanochip device for capturing circulating tumor cells in [MORE]

Blood Test for Drug Response to Prostate Cancer

Blood Test
Blood tests that replace tissue biopsies are a growing field in cancer research. This piece describes work at the [MORE]

Finding Small Chromosome Abnormalities with DNA Sequencing

DNA Sequencing
In July 2012, researchers at Stanford University announced that they had sequenced the entire genome of a fetus using [MORE]

Direct to Consumer Liquid Biopsy Test for Multiple Cancers

CancerIntercept Liquid Biopsy
Pathway Genomics (San Diego, CA) is the first company to offer liquid biopsy screening tests for multiple cancers [MORE]