Grand Opportunity Grant Funds Rapid Saliva Test Using Lab-On-A-Chip (Medical News Today)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded researchers in Rice University’s new BioScience Research Collaborative (BRC) a $2 million Grand Opportunity (GO) grant to develop a fast, inexpensive test for oral cancer that a dentist could perform simply by using a brush to collect a small sample of cells from a patient’s mouth.
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