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‘Lab-on-a-chip’ blood test could spot breast cancer early

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Dennis Thompson, Healthday Reporter From: medicalxpress.com 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 of cancer, explained …