The last post has given an introduction to liquid biopsy and its first four applications. This post is to analyze this rest four: Cancer Treatment Last year, some companies began to establish genetic map of cancer through mutated DNA fragments found in the blood. This “diagnosis and treatment” test can be used to determine which medication is suitable for the patients because cancer is caused by a specific mutation and…
Liquid Biopsy
Eight Applications of Liquid Biopsy (Part One)
Liquid Biopsy, one of the hottest words recently, has been selected as on of the 2015 Top Ten Breakthrough Technology by MIT Technology Review. Years before, it’s only limited to researches, but now it is more frequently used in clinical. Liquid Biopsy, in fact, is to determine the human blood floating DNA fragments using high-speed sequencing. When a person’s body has exogenous DNA, such as infants, cancer or organ transplant,…