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London startup
fromBusiness Matters
1 month agoBIOCAPTIVA raises 1.58m to transform liquid biopsy sample preparation
BIOCAPTIVA secured £1.58 million funding to commercialize msX technology, which simplifies blood sample preparation for cancer diagnostics by using magnetic bead extraction to isolate cell-free DNA directly from whole blood.
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Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 months agoSimple blood test can predict which breast cancer treatment will work best, study finds
A blood test measuring circulating tumour DNA predicts breast cancer treatment response before or within four weeks, enabling alternative therapies and avoiding ineffective drugs.
fromBusiness Insider
6 months agoA Silicon Valley engineer cracked the code to find signs of colon cancer in your blood
At first, cancer is a quiet disease. Inside the body, cells are aggressively multiplying out of control, changing everything. But on the outside, there's nothing special to see or feel. Not yet. For Guardant co-CEO Helmy Eltoukhy, that invisibility looked like an engineering challenge. What if cancer could be detected early - through blood tests - before you even knew it was there?
Startup companies
fromThe New Yorker
10 months agoSiddhartha Mukherjee on the Promises and Perils of Early Cancer Detection
Current medical guidelines have us screening for only five cancers, and one at a time. A new test, from a startup called Grail, has identified fifty cancers, with a remarkably low rate of false positives.
Cancer
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