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New Role of Red Blood Cells in Absorption of DNA Bearing Tumorigenic Mutations from Lung Cancer Tissue
2021-01-24
Abstract excerpt
Red blood cells (RBC) are commonly assumed to be vehicles for oxygen, carbon dioxide, and cells’ metabolic byproducts. In this study, we investigated whether RBC may contain cancer-cell derived DNA and whether such cargo may be used as a biomarker for detecting cancer. Using an in vitro co-culture system, we showed that RBC could absorb DNA bearing tumorigenic mutations from cancer cell lines. Next, we demonstrate...
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- Literature Corpus work
- c74b7fc1-efa3-5c55-a621-b3309dfe19d3
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.01.15.21249747
