Nano-Velcro' technology used to improve capture of circulating cancer cells

Monday, March 7, 2011 - 16:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have announced the successful demonstration of a 2nd-generation CTC enrichment technology, capable of effectively identifying and capturing circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood samples collected from prostate cancer patients. This new approach could be even faster and cheaper than existing methods and captures a greater number of CTCs.

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