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Prototype electronic sensor that detects anticancer drug

April 12, 2024

Prototype electronic sensor detects cancer drug

This prototype electronic sensor emits current when it detects the anticancer drug afimoxifene. Researchers created the device to demonstrate a new method that could lower the cost of automated dosing systems for chemotherapies and other drugs.

[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grants DGE 1828869 and EFMA 2223678.]

Learn more in the Rice University news story Rice breakthrough could make automated dosing systems universal. (Date of image: 2024; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: April 12, 2024)

Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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