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- Title
Using Sound to Separate Circulating Tumor Cells.
- Authors
Balakrishnan, Vijay Shankar
- Abstract
The article reports on a device named Acoustic Tweezers, developed by Doctor Tony Huang of Penn State University in University Park, Doctor Ming Dao of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Doctor Subra Suresh of Carnegie Mellon University which is capable of separate MCF-7 breast cancer cells from normal white blood cells. Topics discussed include the use of sound waves for tweezing out pathological cells from healthy cells and the biophysical properties of normal cells.
- Subjects
ACOUSTIC devices; BREAST cancer; CANCER cells; LEUCOCYTES; SOUND waves
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2015, Vol 107, Issue 8, p1
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djv230