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Finding Cancer in a drop of Blood
- alexandros 18y agoA very valiant effort. I am concerned about the false positives/negatives though, and the article dod not say much in the way of that.
- biohacker42 18y agoYes their sensitivity and specificity concern me as well, but if it can be made to work then this will be revolutionary in the true sense of the word.
- palish 18y agoThis site is unviewable on an iPhone. It redirects to mobile.portfolio.com with no option to go to the "full" Portfolio site. Lame.
- palish 18y agoSo.. I'm just plain curious: why doesn't the above comment contribute? (Why was it downmodded?) I'm trying to educate myself about this.
- skmurphy 18y agoThis is at least a decade and probably two away from affecting clinical outcomes, if their hypothesis proves correct (not that they can build the device to detect the markers but that knowing the markers will actually allow you to impact the natural history of the disease (cure you or let you live longer than expected)). The point of these articles is to secure additional funding for research so of course the results are promising but they are non-specific about likely benefits.
- bbgm 18y agoNowhere close to prime time, but essential for the future of diagnostics, especially if we want to measure multiple analytes using very small samples. There are some systems on the market today that go in that direction (although not quite where the Health/Hood systems are) http://www.e2v.com/applications/medical-science/biosensors.cfm http://www.e2v.com/applications/medical-science/biosensors.c...