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Smart Contact Lenses For Cancer Diagnostics And Screening

Glucose Monitoring Contact Lens

Scientists from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a contact lens that can capture and detect exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles found in bodily secretions which have the potential for being diagnostic cancer biomarkers. The lens was designed with microchambers bound to antibodies that can capture exomes found in tears.  This antibody-conjugated signaling microchamber …

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Researchers Develop A New Way To Find Cancer At The Nanometre Scale

Researchers Develop A New Way To Find Cancer At The Nanometre Scale

Diagnosing and treating cancer can be a race against time. By the time the disease is diagnosed in a patient, all too often it is advanced and able to spread throughout the body, decreasing chances of survival. Early diagnosis is key to stopping it. In a new Concordia-led paper published in the journal Biosensors and …

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