Samir Iqbal, an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering Department, detailed his team’s results in a recent Nature’s Scientific Reports paper (“Effects of Nanotexture on Electrical Profiling of Single Tumor Cell and Detection of Cancer from Blood in Microfluidic Channels”).
“We used inherent properties of the cell walls to create a diagnostic tool. The cancer cells behave differently as they come into contact with the nanotextured walls. They dance.”Identifying those “dancing cells” will help doctors pinpoint cancer cells and start treatment earlier than allowed with current technology.“Discovering the cancer earlier, before it metastasizes, is essential to surviving cancer,” Iqbal said. “Our device has the potential to do that.
Samir Iqbal, profesa msaidizi katika Idara ya Uhandisi wa Umeme, alielezea matokeo ya timu yake katika karatasi ya hivi karibuni ya Ripoti za Sayansi za Asili (Madhara ya Nanotexture kwenye Profiling ya Umeme ya Chembe ya Tumor na Ugunduzi wa Saratani kutoka kwa Damu katika Vituo vya Microfluidic). <unk>Tulitumia sifa za kiasili za kuta za chembe ili kuunda chombo cha utambuzi. Chembe za kansa hujiendesha kwa njia tofauti zinapogusa kuta zenye muundo wa nano. "Kutambua ""chembe za kucheza dansi"" hizo kutawasaidia madaktari kutambua chembe za kansa na kuanza matibabu mapema kuliko inavyoruhusiwa na teknolojia ya sasa, kugundua saratani mapema, kabla ya kuenea, ni muhimu kwa kuokoka saratani, ""Iqbal alisema." <unk> Kifaa chetu kina uwezo wa kufanya hivyo.