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Cancer diagnostics: Extracting extracellular vesicles

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Two approaches for quantifying extracellular vesicles in blood samples facilitate the search for highly specific cancer biomarkers.

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Figure 1: Two approaches for the quantification of extracellular vesicles in blood plasma.

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