Not exact matches
In CCS, a
few cells are
sampled from the embryo and chromosomes counted.
Users simply collect a blood
sample from a patient, feed it into the device, and retrieve any purified tumor
cells a
few hours later.
Five days later the team found all
samples contained more
cells than before, but treated ones had between 36 and 90 per cent
fewer cells than untreated
samples.
Sebetan, who presented the findings at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting in New Orleans last week, was surprised that the control
samples began with
fewer live
cells than the spermicidal condoms.
As in the laboratory
cell samples, there was a rapid degradation of BRD4 in the tumor
cells and a powerful anti-leukemia effect, with
few noticeable side effects.
When using these alternative flow
cells one must consider that
fewer total reads either means less depth per
sample or
fewer samples can be run on the flow
cell to achieve the same depth per
sample.
Blood
samples may indicate anemia but this is not specific and only a
few tumors will have cancer
cells in the blood.
The test involves taking a
sample — a swab of ear gook, a bit of diarrhea, or a
few cells from a skin mass — and smearing a thin layer of the
sample on a microscope slide.