U.S.-Indian Develops Cheap Paper Test To Detect Cancer

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 26 February 2014, 02:27 IST   |    1 Comments
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BANGALORE: Sometimes you don’t require the best of technologies to find out some types of diseases and that is what the Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Sangeeta Bhatia has done, reports Chidanand Rajghatta of Times of India.

The U.S. born Bhatia explained that the paper test effectively relies on nanoparticles that interact with tumor proteins called proteases; and added that each of these particles can trigger and release hundreds of biomarkers that are easily detectable in a patient's urine.

"When we invented this new class of synthetic biomarker, we used a highly specialized instrument to do the analysis," exclaimed Bhatia, who is also the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

She further added that, "For the developing world, we thought it would be exciting to adapt it instead to a paper test that could be performed on unprocessed samples in a rural setting, without the need for any specialized equipment. The simple readout could even be transmitted to a remote caregiver by a picture on a mobile phone."
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