VIDEO: Lab on a chip transforms cancer diagnosis and treatment

04/26/2016 |

Nanotechnology has enabled medical treatments that were unthinkable just a decade ago. Thanks to a tiny fabricated device called a Lab on a Chip, scientists can now target and capture individual tumor cells, using only a blood sample from a cancer patient. This can potentially be a game-changer — not just for diagnosing cancer, but potentially for testing individualized therapies on those cells in a laboratory, before using them on a patient in real life.

Cagri Savran is a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, conducting research at the Birck Nanotechnology Center. Read more about his research at http://savranlab.org.