Fast, accurate new nanoparticle-based sensor system for screening cancer drugs
Monday, December 15, 2014 - 11:01
in Biology & Nature
Traditional genomic, proteomic and other screening methods currently used to characterize drug mechanisms are time-consuming and require special equipment, but now researchers led by chemist Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst offer a multi-channel sensor method using gold nanoparticles that can accurately profile various anti-cancer drugs and their mechanisms in minutes.