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New nanomechanical method for detecting disease- and treatment-relevant genes developed

Published in Genomics and Genetics Weekly, January 5th, 2007

Researchers from the National Centre of Competence in Research at the newly established Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) in Basel, together with Roche scientists, have developed an innovative method for the rapid and sensitive detection of disease- and treatment-relevant genes.

The results of this research are published in Nature Nanotechnology.

Ulrich Certa, head of Functional Genomics at the Roche Centre for Medical Genomics, comments: "Our research results show that these new nanomechanical sensors can be used for the direct and continuous monitoring of patients' response to a given treatment. This promising new technology takes us a step...

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