Are We Fighting Cancer Wrong?
Dr. Sunitha Nagrath and Dr. Tae Hyun Kim featured internationally for the development of Indwelling CTC Device
"A new device is capable of screening blood that captures 3.5 times the number of cancer cells as the current method, according to new findings published Monday in Nature Communications. This new device, which was tested in lab animals, may be able to better diagnose and treat humans with cancer. The new device continuously screens blood over the course of a few hours, straight from a person's vein. This will allow more of their blood to be tested, which will increase the chances of catching cancer cells."
"It's the difference between having a security camera that takes a snapshot of a door every five minutes or takes a video. If an intruder enters between the snapshots, you wouldn't know about it," said Sunitha Nagrath, a researcher at University of Michigan and lead developer of the device.
— United Press International
Lab Member Vasudha Murlidhar published in Cancer Research (2017)
Lab Members Eric Lin and Lianette Rivera-Báez published in Cell Systems (2017)