Silver-plated gold nanostars detect early cancer biomarkers

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200721132731.htm

The results appeared online on May 4 in the journal Analyst.

"The general research focus in my lab has been on the early detection of diseases in people before they even know they're sick," said Tuan Vo-Dinh, director of the Fitzpatrick Institute for Photonics and the R. Eugene and Susie E. Goodson Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke. "And to do that, you need to be able to go upstream, at the genomic level, to look at biomarkers like microRNA."