Xerox in Pact
To Develop Cancer Screening Tools
David P. Hamilton, The
Wall Street Journal, April 19, 2004
Xerox Corp.'s Palo Alto
Research Center announced a partnership with
the Scripps Research Institute of La Jolla,
Calif., aimed at developing new tools for
the early detection of cancer and other medical
applications.
The new institute represents
PARC's bid to expand its research activities
to the burgeoning field of biomedicine. In
cooperation with biomedical researchers at
Scripps, PARC scientists and engineers will
focus on developing new measurement systems
that can address otherwise hard-to-solve questions
in biological research.
The first project involves
a PARC-developed system called Fiber Array
Scanning Technology that can detect the presence
of cells from body tissue in the bloodstream.
Such cells are often an early signal of cancer,
since tumors frequently "shed" cells into
the blood. Such body cells are normally not
found in the blood.
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