Smart Contact Lenses for Cancer Diagnostics and Screening (IMAGE)

Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation

Smart Contact Lenses for Cancer Diagnostics and Screening

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Scientists from the Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation (TIBI) have developed a contact lens that can capture tears for the detection of exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles found in bodily secretions which have the potential for being diagnostic cancer biomarkers.

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Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, using Biorender software

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