New 2D Images Can Detect Cancer Risk

Portuguese researchers have developed a new method, which uses images of a protein in cells to quantify its distribution (how much protein there is, and where it is in the cell) for that population of cells. The discovery byresearchers João Sanches, Raquel Seruca and colleagues has important medical implications because thecellular location of a protein is directly linked to its function, as provedwhen the new algorithm identified mutations that had the potential to lead to human diffuse gastric cancer (HDGC). This result is particularly important because HDGC is asymptomatic and, at the moment, its early detectionis not reliable, what means that the disease has extremely high mortality. read more

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