arpie
7 years agoMember
New Blood test (hopefully soon) that does away with biopsy!
This popped up in my news feed this morning - being developed by Queensland University!
It seems that cancer DNA binds with gold molecules ..... identifying cancer in the blood with out the need for invasive and painful Biopsies!
Hopefully they kick off human trials soon ..... and made available to everyone
Read all about it here:
https://theconversation.com/one-test-to-diagnose-them-all-researchers-exploit-cancers-unique-dna-signature-108078
It seems that cancer DNA binds with gold molecules ..... identifying cancer in the blood with out the need for invasive and painful Biopsies!
- Abu Sina
Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Laura G. Carrascosa
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
Matt Trau
Professor, The University of Queensland
Hopefully they kick off human trials soon ..... and made available to everyone
Read all about it here:
https://theconversation.com/one-test-to-diagnose-them-all-researchers-exploit-cancers-unique-dna-signature-108078