iChip Spots Circulating Tumor Cells (4 of 4) (IMAGE)

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iChip Spots Circulating Tumor Cells (4 of 4)

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The microfluidic chip for inertial focusing and magnetic enrichment of circulating tumor cells. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the April 3, 2013, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by Dr. E. Ozkumur at Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine in Boston, Mass., and colleagues was titled, "Inertial Focusing for Tumor Antigen–Dependent and Tumor Antigen–Independent Sorting of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells."

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Credit: Image courtesy of Berkin Cilingiroglu

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