Nanoparticle system captures heart-disease biomarker from blood for in-depth analysis

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(Funded by the National Institutes of Health)

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a method that combines high-precision protein measurement with sticky nanoparticles to capture and analyze a common marker of heart disease and to reveal details that were previously inaccessible. The new method captures and measures various forms of the protein cardiac troponin I, a biomarker of heart damage currently used to help diagnose heart disease.