TINY springboards carved out of silicon can act as a sensitive detector for
prostate cancer, the most common form of cancer in men. The research team
developing the detector say this is the first time microscopic structures have
been used to make accurate measurements of levels of clinically important
molecules.
“This opens up new possibilities for sensitive screening for cancer-related
proteins and eventually rapid testing in protein chips,” says team member Arun
Majumdar of the University of California, Berkeley.
Working with Thomas Thundat of Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and
cancer researcher Richard Cote at the University of Southern…
