Detecting cancer early and monitoring its progress non-invasively are high on oncologists' agenda. So the design of a neat device that detects and counts cancer cells shed into the blood by tumours is a welcome advance.
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Uhr, J. One-stop shop. Nature 450, 1168–1169 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/4501168a
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