Wednesday 10 April 2019

Wearable Device Scrubs Cancer Cells from Blood

Wearable Device Scrubs Cancer Cells from Blood

A new wearable device, tested on animals, can capture and remove tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream. With further development, the blood-filtering gadget could be used to diagnose, and perhaps treat, metastatic cancer in humans. Inventors of the microfluidic device, at the University of Michigan, described it last week in the journal Nature Communications.
Read more: https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/biomedical/diagnostics/wearable-device-captures-cancer-cells-from-blood?source=Snapzu

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