The research presented will illustrate the sensitivity, precision, and speed of Bio-Rad's ddPCR, which enables researchers and clinicians to monitor biomarkers of malignant and nonmalignant blood disorders cost-effectively and at scale.
Below are highlights of presentations that demonstrate how ddPCR is used to monitor patients with hairy cell leukemia and chronic myeloid leukemia, particularly in cases when testing must identify low levels of the biomarkers to provide an early indication of whether or not a patient is responding to treatment.
ddPCR measures the response to treatment in hairy cell leukemia Professor Pier Luigi Zinzani, MD, PhD, head of the Lymphoma Unit and professor of Hematology, and Alessandro Broccoli, MD, PhD, both of the University of Bologna, wanted to see if they could find a more sensitive test to determine if patients with hairy cell leukemia (HCL) are in complete response after cladribine (2CdA) treatment. Using ddPCR, they showed how patients ...
