New Cell Sorting Method Aids in Bespoke Cancer Therapies

New Cell Sorting Method Aids in Bespoke Cancer Therapies
Nov-08-18
A simple new ‘lab-on-a-chip’ breakthrough could make it much easier to deliver personalized cancer treatments.

Targeted cancer treatments involving T cell therapy show great promise, but identifying the correct receptor molecules for each patient can as long as a year. To speed the process—and offer an earlier intervention—the team from the University of California, Irvine, developed a device that allows the T cells to join with the cancer cells inside microscopic oil-water droplets. This method reduces the time required to find matching pairs to a matter of days, and the pairs are determined with a 100 percent accuracy.

According to team lead Weian Zhao, "This use of droplet microfluidics screening significantly reduces the cost of making new cancer immunotherapies that are associated with less systemic side effects than standard chemotherapy drugs, and vastly speeds up the timeframe for treatment."

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