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Self-powered microfluidic chip offers rapid cancer detection

Posted: 12 Mar 2013  Print Version  Bookmark and Share Subscribe 

Keywords:microfluidic chip  microRNA  cancer detector 

[Summary of tips] A team of researchers at the Riken Advanced Science Institute has developed a self-powered microfluidic chip that can perform an analysis for cancer-specific microRNAs in a drop of patient blood in as little as 20 minutes. Claimed as the most sensitive microRNA detector yet, if enough of the target is present, the chip produces......
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