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European collaborative research project MIRACLE about to start

European collaborative research to develop lab-on-chip system for cheap and fast cancer diagnosis

Leuven, Belgium – September 1, 2010 – Today, at the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners announce the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims at developing an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of circulating and disseminated tumor cells (CTCs and DTCs) in blood. The new lab-on-chip is an essential step towards faster and cost-efficient diagnosis of cancer. Read more...