What is the best way to cure any disease? Of course, it was killed in the cradle. "Early detection and early treatment" is a commonplace, but how easy is it to accurately monitor the disease? But now, IBM's tiny chip can help us detect cancer.
IBM's lab-on-a-chip has announced one of their latest research results. Patients can only analyze their own saliva and urine at home to perform a "health check."
According to IBM, their research has focused on nanoscale DLD, a method for cancer DNA identification based on liquid samples. You can simply understand this technique as playing Pachinko, but the process is not done by luck but by size.
The study, published in the journal Nature recently and co-sponsored by scientist Joshua Smith and Gustavo Stolovitzky, director of the IBM biological and nanoscale scientific and technological systems project, has been able to successfully detect when cancer cells are in their incubation period.
Smith said in an interview with IEEE that
We took advantage of IBM's powerful research capabilities in silicon nanotechnology and applied it in the medical field. We have now implemented large-scale DLD testing.
This technology is suitable for mass production, helps to reduce costs, and has wide application space in medical diagnosis. In addition, its professional barriers are very low, and it is possible to conduct autonomous operations without professional training, which is conducive to popularization of civilian use.
Before being used to detect cancer, DLD is used to isolate parasites and other substances. And now, IBM has narrowed it down to the nanoscale, and filtration methods ranging from 20 to 110 nanometers are enough to screen out cancer cells.
Although this technology is still in the early stages of research, IBM's researchers also said that if this technology is applied to self-test at home, it will take some time to test.
Even if this technology is still in its early stages, if it can reduce the cost, it really contributes to the public's early disease prevention.
Technical details can be viewed in this video. For an introduction to DLD, see Nature's introduction.
Via engadget & IEEE
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