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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2017
Medcom Advance, S.a., Barcelona, ES;
Medcom Tech, S.a., Madrid, ES;
Fundacion DE Investigacion Hm Hospitales, Madrid, ES;
Hainan Xie, Tarragona, ES;
Manuel Garcia Algar, Tarragona, ES;
Moritz Nazarenus, Tarragona, ES;
Juan Sagales, Barcelona, ES;
Carlos Villanueva Leal, Barcelona, ES;
Sara Gomez de Pedro, Tarragona, ES;
Eduardo Manuel Garcia Rico, Madrid, ES;
MEDCOM TECH, S.A., Madrid, ES;
FUNDACION DE INVESTIGACION HM HOSPITALES, Madrid, ES;
MEDCOM ADVANCE, S.A., Barcelona, ES;
Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus and method of detecting and quantifying the number of circulating tumour cells (CTCs) and/or tumour cells (TCs) from a liquid biopsy by using a hyperoxic environment and incubation with a fluorophore-labelled metabolic indicator (fluorophore-labelled 2-D-glucose derivative) and microfluidic chips.