A team of chemical engineers and chemists at the University of Birmingham created a sensor chip with synthetic receptors along a 2D surface to identify specific, targeted glycoprotein molecules that are differentiated by their modified carbohydrate chains. The study, published in the journal Chemical Science, illustrates that the sensor chip can pick up on subtle differences in glycoprotein molecules and improve the accuracy and efficiency of prostate cancer diagnosis.
The work is receiving world-wide media attention, including Daily Mail, Conversation, Finance Express, China Daily…