Singapore, Feb. 2 -- Researchers have opened a 'window to the brain' with a new diagnostic device that can tell how deadly brain tumours respond to treatment from a simple blood test.

Technology created at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia could improve the odds of surviving brain cancer and change how we treat a range of neurological conditions.

The new device, called a Phenotype Analyzer Chip, was developed in the laboratory ofARC Laureate Professor Matt Trauand reads tiny biological particles in a patient's bloodstream to get fast and accurate information on glioblastoma.

The Phenotype Analyzer Chip works by examining small samples of blood and capturing messenger cells known as extracellular vesicles that originate fro...