Better Biopsies Through Biofluidics
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 - 12:50
in Health & Medicine
Biopsies are a gold standard for definitively diagnosing diseases like cancer. Usually, doctors can only take 2-D snapshots of the tissue, and they're limited in their ability to measure the protein levels that might better explain a diagnosis. But now, researchers have developed a new method to acquire 3-D atlases of tissue that provide much more information, incorporating both data on the tissue structure and its molecular profile. They report their results in Biomicrofluidics.