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Moving the needle on monitoring skin cancer

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moving the needle on monitoring skin cancer
moving the needle on monitoring skin cancer

A research team has developed a new approach that integrates a minimally invasive, painless microneedle platform capable of absorbing the cell-surrounding, biomarker-containing fluid from deeper layers of the skin with an ultra-sensitive, single-molecule detection method (Simoa) that detects often rare, yet relevant biomarkers with higher sensitivity than conventional methods.

Source: ScienceDaily.com