Cancer is a condition characterized by uncontrollable cell growth or reproduction in a specific part of the body, which will ultimately invade surrounding tissues and metastasize to distant sites. Most of the time, cancer has been advanced and possibly spread throughout the body by the time it's diagnosed. Therefore, cancer diagnosis and treatment is a competition against time, for which efforts have been made to find informative biomarkers, such as mutated nucleic acids, secreted proteins, and tumor cells, that can indicate cancer at the relatively early stage. Researchers at the Concordia University recently published a study in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics , which introduced a new liquid biopsy approach using lab-on-a-chip technology, aiming at detecting cancer prior to the forming of a tumor. M icrofluidic Chip to Capture Cancer Biomarkers Th is liquid biopsy method is developed on the basis of a microfluidic chip targeting extrac...