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Re:Ixchel (YC S15) Predicts How Cancer Drugs Will Behave in ... by jcr on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @02:28PM (#9931399)
The link on your site to the SPIE Journal of Biomedical Optics paper is paywalled [1], but the paper is freely available from NIH [2]. You might want to change the link on your site, or just add NIH link(s) as backups (I also found [3] on NIH).

So far, I've only read through the abstract, but the use of Raman spectroscopy [4] for identification looks fascinating. I had no clue that it's possible to differentiate cancer cells with a spectrograph, and no, I really have no idea how or why the analysis works. On the other hand, automating test equipment in a lab is a whole lot of fun!

At the moment, the closest thing I can manage to a useful question is: Can/Will/Does your service automate this analysis method?

[1] http://biomedicaloptics.spiedigitallibrary.org/mobile/articl...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832300/

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC141028/

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raman_spectroscopy

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Re:Ixchel (YC S15) Predicts How Cancer Drugs Will Behave in ... by jkirshner on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @05:18PM (#9932357)
Thanks for the suggestion, we will add the links to the NIH repository for the papers that are available.

Regarding automation, the Raman spectroscopy studies was done in collaboration with a colleague at Purdue University, so at the moment, we don't have plans to extend these studies.

However, we are working on automating our workflow to streamline the set-up and analysis of our cultures. So, if you know anyone working on bio lab-related automation, we'd love an intro.

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