The "EV Click Chip" process involves collecting and purifying extracellular vesicles from a blood sample before performing RT-ddPCR to identify up to 10 early-stage HCC biomarkers.
In Genome Biology this week: computational approach to determine phylogenetic relationships from single-cell data, metagenomic classification pipeline, and more.
The team will use the five-year funding to develop a liquid biopsy-based assay to select and prioritize liver cancer patients who need a liver transplant.
In PLOS this week: genomic analysis of multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from Colombia, inflammatory response signatures in cancer, and more.
The findings suggest that the ancestors of modern West Africans interbred with a hominin population that split from the modern human lineage before Neanderthals did.
