Sunday, January 11, 2009

A Quick Cancer Detector

Blood-analyzing computer chip, detects cancer in 10 minutes sounds almost too good to be true right? Perhaps not. James Heath, a Caltech chemistry professor and LeRoy Hood, the founder of the Institute for Systems Biology are the developers of a microfluidic chip which is reportedly part of a process that segregates cells and proteins in a single drop of blood and then tags the proteins. The indicator would be seeing them light up when viewed microscopically.

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