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In the future, a blood test may be able to replace a biopsy
Doctors often have to take a tissue sample to understand what is happening inside a tumor or another affected organ. Biomedical scientist Danilo Mladenović is working to find the same information from a blood sample.
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Doctors often have to take a tissue sample to understand what is happening inside a tumor or another affected organ. Biomedical scientist Danilo Mladenović is working to find the same information from a blood sample. Research carried out at Tallinn University may therefore help doctors detect diseases earlier and monitor treatment effectiveness without having to take repeated tissue samples. Understanding Mladenović's development work without formal training in the field requires a good imagination.
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