Jorge
Soto on
Miroculus’ miRNA Cancer Detection Device (VIDEO)
Recently at TEDGlobal 2014,
Jorge Soto, a
Cancer tech**logist, gave a talk about a startup he co-founded,
Miroculus. Early
Detection of
Cancer is imperative in the long road towards recovery. Making*early
Detection even harder is the fact that there are so many different variations of
Cancer out there. Jorge*and his team have developed an affordable
Device to detect certain patterns in
miRNA taken from blood to quickly diag**se cancer.
The steps toward diag**ses in this
Device include taking a simple blood sample that can be prepared with a Miroculus kit. The blood sample is pipetted into a standard 96 well plate that is then loaded into the
Device for approximately 60 minutes. Each well has its own patented biochemical reagents to detect certain miRNA. If those*miRNA strings are present, the well will light up green. A smartphone is then used to analyze the speed of reaction and analyze the data to give an accurate diag**sis. So far,
Jorge states that the
Device has been able to accurately pinpoint
miRNA expression patterns for pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and more.
The ingenuity shown by this team is great. They demonstrated*that it does **t take many years of research to develop something new, rather the creativity of combining*some*preexisting*tech**logies to create something new is just as effective. Though still in the early stages, this
Device holds a lot of potential for the field of oncology.
TEDGlobal 2014 Talk:
The future of early cancer detection?
Miroculus Website…
