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Chip measures cancer spread rate for more accurate treatment
A team of researchers in the United States has come up with a new technology could revolutionize the world of cancer treatment because it allows the ability to measure the rate of metastasis of cancer cells and the degree of their spread in the human body.
The new technology, developed by the research team from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, allows the measurement of the degree of metastasis of cancer cells and the development of more accurate treatment plans.
As part of the study, which was published in the scientific journal Nature Communications, the researchers created microscopic sensor units that contain what is called “microfluidic chips.” These sensors can monitor clusters of malignant cells during their circulation in the blood and follow their different paths.
The website “Medical Express”, which specializes in medical research, quoted Fatih Sarioglu, a researcher in the field of electrical and computer engineering at the Georgia Institute, as saying that the new chips contain filters that travel in the bloodstream and are no more than one micron in size, and they can determine the location of each cell in the blood.
