Researchers Develop Portable Device for Testing Cancer Biomarkers

Oct 20, 2020

Researchers at Brock and McMaster universities have developed a prototype for a tool which will allow patients to use a blood sample to test for the presence of cancer biomarkers. This technology has specifically been designed to assess the levels of prostate-specific antigens (“PSA”), but it can be tweaked to test for other cancers as well.

According to the researchers, the device operates in just the same way that hand-held glucose monitors work…

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