Dr Richard Lobb and Quan Zhou from UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology mentioned the diagnostic system might assist sufferers start therapy and get forward of the illness earlier than it spreads.
“Lung most cancers is the commonest reason behind most cancers dying in Australia, claiming the lives of just about 9000 individuals annually,” Dr Lobb mentioned.
“Regardless of its prevalence, the preliminary detection and screening course of for the illness will be drawn out and costly, involving scans, imaging assessments and biopsy procedures.
“The know-how we’ve developed is non-invasive and might detect very small lung most cancers nodules to hopefully catch the illness within the first stage.”
The nanodevice analyses the affected person’s blood pattern, in search of a specific biomarker – the sugars that coat the tiny messenger particles often known as extracellular vesicles (EVs).
“These sugar molecules, or glycans, function wonderful biomarkers as a result of the sugar code on a most cancers cell is totally different to a traditional cell,” Dr Lobb mentioned.
“A drop of blood will be all that’s wanted to alert clinicians to the presence of small lung most cancers nodules and permit intervention whereas the illness is in its early levels,” Dr Lobb mentioned.
A scientific examine involving 40 sufferers discovered the know-how efficiently differentiated sufferers with early-stage malignant lung nodules from these with benign lung nodules.
The outcomes present the potential to make use of EV glycans to diagnose different ailments non-invasively. This system, and a easy blood take a look at, might assist clinicians step in earlier than extra intensive scanning or therapies or drug regimes are wanted.”
Quan Zhou, UQ’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology
The nanodevice was designed within the lab of ARC Laureate and AIBN senior group chief Professor Matt Trau, with AIBN students Xueming Niu, Dr Alain Wuethrich and Dr Zhen Zhang contributing to the analysis.
The analysis paper was revealed in Superior Science.
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Journal reference:
Zhou, Q., et al. (2024). Glycan Profiling in Small Extracellular Vesicles with a SERS Microfluidic Biosensor Identifies Early Malignant Growth in Lung Most cancers. Superior Science. doi.org/10.1002/advs.202401818.