Levitating proteins could help diagnose disease

Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 09:44 in Health & Medicine

Researchers at Michigan State University’s Precision Health Program have helped develop a fascinating new method for detecting the density of proteins in the blood – a method that could vastly improve the rate at which diseases are detected and diagnosed. The method, called “magnetic levitation,” or MagLev, had previously been used to separate different types of particles […]

Read the whole article on Science Blog

More from Science Blog

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net