Expanding on liquid biopsies with exosomes
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 09:30
in Health & Medicine
A new type of liquid biopsy for solid tumors based on analyzing exosomes from the blood is being tested by clinicians. "The term 'liquid biopsy' describes the fact that a simple blood sample can contain many tumor-derived molecules and even tumor cells, enabling molecular analyses similar to those possible in tumor tissue samples," says a co-lead investigator of the study.