Continuously capturing cancer cells

A wearable device that captures and isolates circulating tumor cells over the course of a few hours could offer better diagnostic accuracy than single-draw liquid biopsies that screen smaller amounts of blood.

A University of Michigan team described the chip-based device for collecting circulating tumor cells (CTCs) last month in a Nature Communications paper. Author Daniel Hayes told BioCentury the idea was to “design a miniature apheresis system to interrogate more blood than with blood draw.” ...