Francis Barany.

• Localización: Scientific American, ISSN 0036-8733, Vol. 291, Nº. 6, 2004, págs. 49-49
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Focuses on the invention by Francis Barany, a microbiologist at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, of chips that allow researchers to rapidly detect cancer mutations. The mutations that lead to cancer can alter a variety of genes and be nearly indistinguishable from the normal DNA sequences around them. Francis Barany is creating devices that rapidly identify mutations to discover which ones cause tumors, a strategy that should enable more effective individualized cancer therapies. Products based on Barany's patents have been developed by Applied Biosystems, Celera Diagnostics and New England Biolabs.