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Biosensing breast cancer.

Researchers at Universitat Politècnica de Valencia have developed a new biosensor device that can help detect breast cancer at its earliest stages. They use a liquid biopsy approach to rapidly, cheaply, and accurately analyse breast cancer biomarkers in blood samples.

Their work has been published in ACS Sensors: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c02222
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Synthesising cancer treatments.

Rice University chemists have developed a simplified method for the facile synthesis of halichondrin B and related compounds. This important molecule has potent anti-tumour properties of great interest to medical research.

Their insights are published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.1c05270

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Cancer testing from blood.

A microfilter device that can easily separate and capture trace amounts of cancer cells in blood has been developed by a Kumamoto University research group. The palm-sized device is being used to develop new cancer diagnostic technologies, detecting even at concentrations of just 5 cancer cells per millilitre.

The research is reported in Talanta:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0039914021001600?via%3Dihub

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