{"id":333350,"date":"2010-02-18T00:54:05","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T05:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=6768"},"modified":"2010-02-18T00:54:05","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T05:54:05","slug":"home-cancer-detection-%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/333350","title":{"rendered":"Home cancer detection \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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… may not be all that far off. The release doesn’t get into any sort of time-to-market predictions, but if this becomes reality it will be one\u00a0amazing\u00a0medical breakthrough<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The release:<\/p>\n

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Small Liquid Sensor May Detect Cancer Instantly, Could Lead to Home Detection Kit<\/a><\/h1>\n

MU researcher developing a sensor to detect diseases, such as breast cancer, in bodily fluids<\/h2>\n

Feb. 17, 2010<\/p>\n

COLUMBIA, Mo. \u2013 What if it were possible to go to the store and buy a kit to quickly and accurately diagnose cancer, similar to a pregnancy test? A\u00a0University of Missouri<\/a> researcher is developing a tiny sensor, known as an acoustic resonant sensor, that is smaller than a human hair and could test bodily fluids for a variety of diseases, including breast and prostate cancers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cMany disease-related substances in liquids are not easily tracked,\u201d said\u00a0Jae Kwon, assistant professor<\/a> of\u00a0electrical and computer engineering <\/a>at MU. \u201cIn a liquid environment, most sensors experience a significant loss of signal quality, but by using highly sensitive, low-signal-loss acoustic resonant sensors in a liquid, these substances can be effectively and quickly detected \u2014 a brand-new concept that will result in a noninvasive approach for breast cancer detection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kwon\u2019s real-time, special acoustic resonant sensor uses micro\/nanoelectromechanical systems (M\/NEMS), which are tiny devices smaller than the diameter of a human hair, to directly detect diseases in body fluids. The sensor doesn\u2019t require bulky data reading or analyzing equipment and can be integrated with equally small circuits, creating the potential for small stand-alone disease-screening systems. Kwon\u2019s sensor also produces rapid, almost immediate results that could reduce patient anxiety often felt after waiting for other detection methods, such as biopsies, which can take several days or weeks before results are known.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur ultimate goal is to produce a device that will simply and quickly diagnose multiple specific diseases, and eventually be used to create \u2018point of care\u2019 systems, which are services provided to patients at their bedsides,\u201d Kwon said. \u201cThe sensor has strong commercial potential to be manifested as simple home kits for easy, rapid and accurate diagnosis of various diseases, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last January, Kwon was awarded a $400,000, five-year National Science Foundation CAREER Award to continue his effort on this sensor research. The CAREER award is the NSF\u2019s most prestigious award in support of junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent teaching, and the integration of education and research. Kwon\u2019s sensor research has been published in the\u00a0IEEE International Conference on Solid-state, Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems<\/em> and the\u00a0IEEE Conference on Sensors<\/em><\/strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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… may not be all that far off. The release doesn’t get into any sort of time-to-market predictions, but if this becomes reality it will be one\u00a0amazing\u00a0medical breakthrough. The release: Small Liquid Sensor May Detect Cancer Instantly, Could Lead to Home Detection Kit MU researcher developing a sensor to detect diseases, such as breast cancer, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4050,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-333350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4050"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}