Sentences with phrase «on circulating tumor cells»

The technique, described in Biomaterials, uses gold nanoparticles and Raman scattering, a technology previously developed by Qian and Nie for cancer cell detection (2007 Nature Biotech paper, 2011 Cancer Research paper on circulating tumor cells).

The study focuses on circulating tumor cells, a potentially rich source of information about a person's cancer.

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Further research could test these cancer stem cell gene expression at the RNA and protein level in circulating tumor cells and biopsies from patients on trial.

Currently, in another study, the researchers are focused on detecting circulating tumor cells in the blood of patients with a diagnosis of breast cancer.

The technique typically homes in on circulating - tumor DNA (ctDNA), genetic material that routinely finds its way from cancer cells into the bloodstream.

The results were published in the journal Lab on a Chip (Lab on a Chip 17 (19), 3291 - 3299) in an article called: «Magnetic particles assisted capture and release of rare circulating tumor cells using wavy - herringbone structured microfluidic devices.»

Liu's «lab on a chip» is notable for its ability to not only capture tumor cells circulating in the blood, but to «release» those cells as well.

An additional advantage to the new subtyping is that it can be performed on tumor cells circulating in the blood.

«The big surprise,» Discher said, «is that injected macrophages circulate all around the body but accumulate only within the tumors where they engorge on cancer cells.»

«Our chip is currently the only device that can potentially capture circulating tumor cells and exosomes directly on the chip, which should increase its ability to detect metastasis.

We have invented new biomaterial surfaces based on natural halloysite nanotubes, that capture rare circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from blood while simultaneously repelling white blood cells.