Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

Metas-Chip precisely identifies presence of micrometastasis in live biopsy samples by label free approach

  • Mohammad Saeid Nikshoar,
  • Mohammad Ali Khayamian,
  • Saeid Ansaryan,
  • Hassan Sanati,
  • Milad Gharooni,
  • Leila Farahmand,
  • Farshad Rezakhanloo,
  • Keivan Majidzadeh-A,
  • Parisa Hoseinpour,
  • Shahrzad Dadgari,
  • Leila Kiani-M,
  • Mohammad Saqafi,
  • Masoumeh Gity,
  • Mohammad Abdolahad

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02184-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Detecting metastatic cells in tumor/lymph node samples of breast cancer patients is extremely important for diagnosis. Here the authors develop a microelectronic biochip that detect the presence of invasive/metastatic cells in unprocessed biopsies and performs better than the current gold standards.