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Microarrays and Noninvasive Imaging, Together At Last

Jun 20, 2007

A post on Omics! Omics! points out a recently published paper in Nature Biotechnology that links contrast-enhanced CT imaging to microarray gene expression data from samples of patients with liver cancer. The paper, says blogger Keith Robison, holds a lot of promise for both more effectively visualizing tumors and more safely monitoring drug efficacy for varied patient populations.

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