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New test for cancer

File phot of Professor Luo Yongzhang.

Luo Yongzhang and his team at Tsinghua University developed a method to measure the concentration of a cell protein that enables the detection of cancer with only a drop of blood.

They identified heat shock protein 90 alpha (Hsp90 alpha for short) - an essential and ubiquitous protein in various cell types - as a "novel tumor biomarker."

Nobel Prize laureate James D. Watson sent his congratulations to Luo and was quoted in a press release as saying: "You and your colleagues at Tsinghua have made an enormous step forward towards conquering cancer."

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