Wednesday, 5 March 2014

A paper diagnostic for cancer

MIT engineers have developed a simple, cheap, paper test that could improve cancer diagnosis rates and help people get treated earlier. The diagnostic, which works much like a pregnancy test, could reveal within minutes, based on a urine sample, whether a person has cancer. This approach has helped detect infectious diseases, and the new technology allows noncommunicable diseases to be detected using the same strategy. Read more here.

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