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Monday, February 14, 2011
Microsponges Can Possibly Save Lives
This article shows that recently, scientists have discovered that micro sponges from seaweed may be able to diagnosis diseases. At Rice University they have a 'Bio-Nano-Chip' which is a grid with agarose beads that capture biomarkers. These biomarkers are in a persons health and are located in their body fluids such as blood and saliva. There are also the micro sponges inserted inside of the grid which were discovered since they obtain massive amounts of fluids in the sponge. The agarose beads also capture and detect the biomarkers. The micro sponges allows a lot of fluid over a large surface for quicker results in capturing the biomarkers; making this a new discovery for Rice University in detecting diseases such a HIV and cancers. This method of diagnosing patients of cancers and diseases is a new step towards technology in an inexpensive way compared to other methods.
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These remind me of ELISA tests. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELISA) Which are simple diagnostic tests that work by detecting specific antigens. I use a line of canine and feline ones at work i will say a box of lyme disease ELISA tests is very expensive. It sounds like this type of testing will be cheaper to produce, can be tailored for diseases that current more expensive tests can identify and also indentify diseases that previously could not be easily diagnosed. Full speed ahead!
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