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Sorting cells with sound waves
- EpicEng 12y agoInteresting. I work at a company which focuses on finding circulating tumor cells, though using a very different method (a blood draw + tissue scan + image analysis. I work on the scanner and image analysis portions.) We currently have a significantly higher success rate than that of this device (71%), but we also have a turnaround time of a couple of weeks. However, we have found that morphology (nuclear and cellular) and the amount of epithelial tissue present are important indicators and predictors of a patients current health and future medical state. With this approach neither may be ascertained (as far as I can tell. The raw size of a cell is not directly proportional to the amount of cancerous tissue present). They can however detect the number of rare events, which is a large part of the equation.