Cancer cells alter protein production machinery to hasten metastasis
An increase in ribosomes, the protein-making machinery found in every living cell, increases their potential to form metastasis.
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An increase in ribosomes, the protein-making machinery found in every living cell, increases their potential to form metastasis.
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital has devised a new ultrahigh-throughput microfluidic chip that improves sensitivity of CTC-based assays 100-fold as compared to the existing approaches.
麻省总医院的一个团队设计出了一种新的超高通量微流控芯片(LPCTC-iCHIP)。与现有方法相比,这种芯片将基于循环肿瘤细胞的检测灵敏度提高了100倍。
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