Placental Hormones

Research from Arizona State University reveals new findings on placental hormones

Published in Blood Weekly, May 13th, 2010

According to recent research from the United States, "This article reports a MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems)-based column separator designed for potential integration with portable medical point-of-care testing (POCT) devices. The MEMS column uses size exclusion chromatography (SEC) to pre-separate raw samples by size, and is made of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) fabricated on a glass slide."

"The MEMS SEC column separates 300 ng/mL of beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (beta-hCG), a cancer biomarker, from a fibrinogen-rich solution (20 mu g/mL) in 10 min, showing 2.12 resolution and 0.036 mm plate height through fluorescent detection. are further verified by...

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Source: Blood Weekly (2010-05-13)

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