Automated liquid biopsy detects brain tumor cells in children
Pediatric researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center wanted to know whether a liquid biopsy tool that relies on detecting vimentin, a structural protein on the surface of many cancer cells, would work to capture and isolate CTCs in blood samples taken from children with CNS tumors. They also wanted to know whether automating the CTC capture method would improve their previously validated manual method.