A technique already developed by Dr. Simeone's research team, in collaboration with Dr. Sunitha Nagrath, for
isolating circulating tumor cells was the foundation for this novel approach to personalized therapeutics.
The way in which they did this was by
isolating circulating tumor cells from a drawing of blood.
While many researchers are still developing affinity - based techniques for
isolating circulating tumor cells, others are exploiting the physical differences between normal and tumor cells.
Berkeley researchers
isolated circulating tumor cells from the blood of breast cancer patients, then used microscale physics to design a precision test for protein biomarkers, which are indicators of cancer.
Not exact matches
For investigators studying
circulating tumor cells, the next step after sampling is to
isolate the desired
cells as quickly and gently as possible.
The field segregates into three major strategies: detecting free nucleic acids,
isolating intact
circulating tumor cells, and identifying extracellular vesicles from
tumors.
So my field is science and technology, so my work is
circulating tumor cells where I
isolate cancer
cells from blood of patients and
isolate their DNA and RNA and try to sequence them and try to device treatments for cancer treatment and therapy.
Circulating cell - free DNA (cfDNA)
isolated from plasma or serum by noninvasive procedures can serve as a «liquid biopsy» and has potential as a biomarker for the
tumor burden and survival prediction of breast cancer (BC).