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An intravenous wire captures rare tumour cells

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A flexible magnetic wire inserted in a blood vessel improves the capture of magnetically labelled circulating tumour cells.

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Fig. 1: Magnetic wire and magnetic microbeads for the capture and retrieval of circulating tumour cells.

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  1. Center for NanoMedicine, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Tae-Hyun Shin & Jinwoo Cheon

  2. Yonsei-IBS Institute, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Tae-Hyun Shin & Jinwoo Cheon

  3. Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Jinwoo Cheon

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Shin, TH., Cheon, J. An intravenous wire captures rare tumour cells. Nat Biomed Eng 2, 635–636 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41551-018-0294-y

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