An improved method for diagnosing colorectal cancer without using invasive techniques has been developed by scientists in China. A team led by Guohua Zhou at Nanjing University used a bead-based assay in conjunction with PCR to detect the RNA produced by cancer cells.
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Digital analysis of the expression levels of multiple colorectal cancer-related genes by multiplexed digital-PCR coupled with hydrogel bead-array
Zongtai Qi, Yinjiao Ma, Lili Deng, Haiping Wu, Guohua Zhou, Tomoharu Kajiyama and Hideki Kambara
Analyst, 2011, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C0AN00976H
