Graduate research assistant Haopeng Xiao loads a glycoprotein sample, which was culled with the "chemical octopus" co-developed in Ronghu Wu's lab at Georgia Tech, into a mass spectrometer. The broad array of captured glycoproteins produce identifiable signals, including those from trace glycoprotein species that previously could not be so comprehensively collected and are vital to early cancer detection. Credit: Georgia Tech / Allison Carter

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College of Sciences, News Room, Research Horizons

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Research, Biotechnology, Health, Bioengineering, Genetics, Cancer Research, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Life Sciences and Biology

Keywords

cancer, glycoprotein, glycopeptide, glycoscience, magnetic bead, dendrimer, chemical octopus, boronic acid, benzoboroxole, Mass spectrometry, cancer screening, prostate cancer, PSA, cancer blood test, cancer urine test, mucus, hormone, chemical trap, complex molecule, molecular engineering, biomarker, early detection, antigens

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• Created By: Ben Brumfield
• Workflow Status: Published
• Created On: May 4, 2018 - 12:47pm
• Last Updated: May 4, 2018 - 12:47pm