Resumen de Francis Barany.

• 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.