Blood tests that can discover tumours before symptoms show | Lydia Sohn
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2015-10-20

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Can a simple blood test help detect cancer, and eliminate the need for invasive biopsy? Lydia Sohn, Professor of Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley, thinks it can. Her lab is using a microfluidic device to detect cancer cells in the blood with the aim to make monitoring cancer simpler and cheaper.