by Dennis Thompson, Healthday Reporter A cutting-edge “lab-on-a-chip” has shown promise in detecting early breast cancers and tumors that have developed in other parts of the body. Roughly the size of a glass microscope slide, the EV-CLUE uses nanotechnology to pump a tiny amount of blood into eight miniscule channels equipped to detect different markers...
July 6, 2018 by Deborah Wormser, UT Southwestern Medical Center A DNA-sensing enzyme forms droplets that act as tiny bioreactors creating molecules to stimulate innate immunity—the body’s first response to infection, UT Southwestern researchers report. The work, reported today in the journal Science, could lead to novel treatments for infections, autoimmune disease, and cancer. (l-r) Mingjian Du and Dr....
