Cancer-Spotting Glasses Light Up the Bad Cells for Surgeons

Cancer surgery is rugged . Even with high - power microscopes , surgeons have a very difficult time distinguish Crab cell from goodly cell . But these fresh glasses developed by Washington University , St. Louiscould convert all that .

Put simply , the glasses make genus Cancer cells beam down , after the patient is shoot with a particular dye that target the cancer cells . Because Cancer the Crab is so notoriously difficult to blemish , it ’s not rare for patients to need a second surgery to cut off out the Cancer the Crab that the surgeon missed the first time around . Dr. hope these glasses will fix all that . “ think what it would mean if these glasses eliminate the need for fall out - up surgery and the associated pain , incommodiousness and anxiousness , ” order Dr. Julie Margenthaler , a breast surgeon at WashU.

Sight is n’t the only sense that scientists are hope might figure out the second surgery job . Last twelvemonth , Dr. Zoltan Takatsinvented the so - call iKnife system — essentially , a sophisticated scalpel equipped with a mass mass spectrometer that literally sniffs out cancer cells . While WashU ’s glasses are too fresh to be list , the iKnife is already being used to relieve lives in the United Kingdom . And hey , when it come to creature to crusade cancer , we ’ll take all we can get . [ WashU ]

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