Capturing Circulating Tumor Cells with Sonic Tweezers
September 1, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
There are two amazing revelations in this piece. The first is a microfluidics device which relies on sonic waves to separate circulating tumor cells from white blood cells and thus produce a count of CTC’s that indicates the presence and severity of metastatic cancer. The second surprise is that the President of Carnegie Mellon University, where this faster and more definitive technology was developed, was one of the researchers who co-authored the published results. MORE
Image Credit: Carnegie Mellon/MIT/Penn State