Nano Velcro

Pharmacology scientists at UCLA’s Nanosystems Institute have developed a cell isolation system that uses thermoresponsive “nano-velcro” (actually, a postage size chip of nanowires coated with tumor-specific antibodies) to catch cancer cells in peripheral blood at a high temperature, and release them at a low temp. They believe this will succeed laser capture microdissection (though that technique is used primarily on solid rather than liquid tissue). MORE

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