Ultrasensitive blood tests known as liquid biopsies promise to improve cancer diagnosis and care
Not exact matches
The finding, reported in today's issue of Science, could someday lead to
ultrasensitive methods for screening potential drugs or fragments of pathogens in the
blood and other bodily fluids.
Plowe's group, for instance, is experimenting with collecting
blood spots on filter paper with a simple finger stick and then analyzing those with
ultrasensitive PCR in the lab.
A team of researchers led by Darragh Duffy from the Pasteur Institute and Yanick Crow from the Institut Imagine in Paris developed an
ultrasensitive method to detect minute amounts of interferon - in human
blood or cerebrospinal fluid.
Even
ultrasensitive tests couldn't detect
blood - or tissue - associated virus up to 3.5 years after infection.