Tumor Cell

Using a microfluidic chip that researchers at Harvard developed three years ago to capture metastatic prostate cells in the bloodstream, Shannon Stott and Shyamala Maheswaran at Mass General Hospital, used an automated imaging system to scan the chip for fluorescent markers that adhered to the chip’s antibody/antigen capture mechanism.  The advantage of the automated imaging was that it reduced the analysis time by 75 percent.   MORE

Image Credit:  S. Stott and Technology Review