A diagnostic ‘cocktail,’ containing a single drop of blood,
a dribble of water and a dose of DNA powder with gold particles, could one day
lead to the treatment of the world’s leading diseases.
This homegrown brew is being developed by IBBME PhD student
Kyryl Zagorovsky and Professor Warren Chan (IBBME), a Canada Research Chair in
Nanobiotechnology, and a recent winner of the NSERC E.W.R. Steacie Memorial
Fellowship.
“There’s been a lot of emphasis in developing simple
diagnostics,” said Professor Chan. “The question is, how do you make it simple
enough, portable enough?”