A New Approach to Detecting Colorectal Cancer (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

A New Approach to Detecting Colorectal Cancer

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Caltech researchers used a DNA-modified, two working-electrode array to measure methyltransferase activity from tissue samples.They consistently observed more activity in tumorous tissue samples than in healthy adjacent tissue from the same patients.

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Courtesy of Ariel Furst/Caltech

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