Engineers can detect ultra rare proteins in blood using a cellphone camera
Tuesday, February 19, 2019 - 15:50
in Biology & Nature
One of the frontiers of medical diagnostics is the race for more sensitive blood tests. The ability to detect extremely rare proteins could make a life-saving difference for many conditions, such as the early detection of certain cancers or the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, where the relevant biomarkers only appear in vanishingly small quantities.