Probing extracellular acidity of live cells in real time for cancer detection and monitoring anti-cancer drug activity

Bhawana Thakur, S. Jayakumar, Shilpa N. Sawant
2015 Chemical Communications  
A multifunctional platform is presented which (a) allows determination of extracellular pH in real time, (b) detects cancer cells, down to 5 cells, and (c) enables evaluating the efficacy of glycolysis inhibiting drugs.
doi:10.1039/c5cc01445j pmid:25805448 fatcat:avlcgom6pvebvdqzrdbygb2vcm