Cancer Biomarker Detection Using Antibody-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles, Fraunhofer Institute For Manufacturing Engineering And Automation Study

Detecting disease markers in blood can be quite challenging, particularly when looking for rare proteins signaling the existence of a tumor. This is because blood is rich in all kind of molecules and compounds that create the false positive “noise” that makes it hard to see what is being searched for. Now a team of researchers at Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation in Germany have developed a new method that does away with the typical process of purifying the blood sample to remove the noise, but that instead focuses directly on its target.

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