Microsponges from seaweed may save lives

Thursday, February 10, 2011 - 15:20 in Health & Medicine

Microsponges derived from seaweed may help diagnose heart disease, cancers, HIV and other diseases quickly and at far lower cost than current clinical methods. The microsponges are an essential component of Rice University's Programmable Bio-Nano-Chip (PBNC) and the focus of a new paper in the journal Small...

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