Synthetic scaffolding could detect multiple types of cancers before they start to spread.
Cancer
Implantable cancer traps could provide earlier diagnosis and help monitor treatment
Patient cancer cells reliably grow on new 3D scaffold, showing promise for precision medicine
While previous structures guessed at the environment that cells would want, the new design lets the cells build to their own specifications.
Shoe-box size breath-analyzer spots deadly lung disease faster, more accurately than doctors
The device could also be used to detect other diseases such as pneumonia, sepsis, asthma and others associated with lung or systemic blood inflammation.
Cancer is smarter than you think: Q&A with Geeta Mehta
Decoding the sophisticated inner workings of cancer may help us fight it.
A step toward recovering reproduction in girls who survive childhood cancer
New approach can boost ovarian follicle survival in mice by up to 75 percent.
Biopsy alternative: “Wearable” device captures cancer cells from blood
New device caught more than three times as many cancer cells as conventional blood draw samples.
