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Engineers can detect ultra rare proteins in blood using a cellphone camera
Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:31:44 EST
One of the frontiers of medical diagnostics is the race for more sensitive blood tests. The ability to detect extremely rare proteins could make a life-saving difference for many conditions, such as the early detection of certain cancers or the diagnosis of traumatic brain injury, where the relevant biomarkers only appear in vanishingly small quantities.
