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Personalised medicine boost as cancer drug monitored in real-time

13-Jan-2017

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Aptamer-based sensors can track levels of small molecules in mobile rats.

Could continuously guide drug dosing in humans by monitoring drug metabolism or organ function.

Whole blood tended to foul up sensors’ molecular sites.

New sensors have laminar flow sheath passes above the sensor architecture, allowing small molecules through but washes blood cells away.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Kevin W. Plaxco

Professor at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Multidisciplinary scientific journal, official journal of the National Academy of Sciences

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)

Public research university in Santa Barbara, California.

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Precision Medicine