Acoustic Microfluidic Device: Blood Filtration for Earlier Cancer Diagnosis
Problem Statement
Circulating tumor cells are some of the largest sized cells in the blood stream, but due to the vast number of other cells in the body, current methods for cancer cell detection are either ineffective or incredibly time intensive. A parallel flow microfluidic box device product could filter and sort blood much faster for doctors, researchers and patients who want more effective ways to detect cancer (tumor cells in the bloodstream). They are dissatisfied with current methods (perpendicular flow designs) that are much too slow unlike our design, even to the point that they cannot be applied at all to therapeutics.
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