Simple test behind early cancer diagnosis breakthrough
Technique combines rolling circle amplification with time-gated Förster resonance energy transfer to detect cancer microRNA
The time may have come to replace the current gold standard method for detecting cancer microRNA in patient samples. Scientists in France have developed a method that is simpler and more accurate than RT-qPCR (reverse transcription quantitative polymerise chain reaction), and that could be developed for doctors to use in a clinic.