Cancer can grow in numerous places in body tissues and poses a huge threat to our health. However, if cancer growth could be detected early, the chances of beating it would be more realistic. The Broadband Infrared Diagnostics (BIRD) research team in the attoworld group of the Chair of Laser Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) reports in its latest article in the science magazine eLife that infrared spectroscopy can be harnessed to detect molecular traces left by tissue tumours in our bloodstream. Early detection of cancer is thus within reach.
Read more: www.attoworld.de/bird.html Original publication:
M. Huber, K. Kepesidis, L. Voronina, F. Fleischmann, E. Fill, J. Hermann, I. Koch, K. Milger-Kneidinger, T. Kolben, G. Schulz, F. Jokisch, J. Behr, N. Harbeck, M. Reiser, C. Stief, F. Krausz, M. Žigman
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
eLife research article, 26. Oktober 2021
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.68758