Cancer Detecting Contact Lenses - A Cool Story

Researchers used a laser cutting and engraving method to create a contact lens containing microchambers that extract and store exosomes. Once the contacts are taken off, boom, exosome-rich contact lenses. Doctors would collect the lenses, examine them, and... Cancer? Yeah, they tested 10 different tissue and cancer cell lines and found that in each case, exosomes were in fact captured and detected.

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