The Right Chemistry: Collaborating Across Multiple Disciplines
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 11:31
in Health & Medicine
Researchers at The University of Kansas Cancer Center are collaborating on the "lab-on-a-chip," a testing platform that captures and performs analysis of various biomarkers, which are actively released by tumor cells into blood. Rather than the usual invasive and costly biopsy, the credit-card size devices will screen for circulating markers that are released from cancer cells within patients' blood.