Blood Draw (IMAGE)

University of California - San Diego

Blood Draw

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Detecting cancer at its earliest stages from a simple blood draw is the goal of several companies currently developing 'liquid biopsies' to detect circulating human tumor DNA. Now UC San Diego researchers have demonstrated they can determine who has cancer, and what type, based on a readout of microbial DNA found in their blood.

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