Researcher Develops Groundbreaking Methodology to Identify Cancerous Cells
Friday, May 9, 2008 - 06:21
in Health & Medicine
Recognizing the distinction between healthy and cancerous cells has traditionally been up to the eye of highly-trained cytologists and pathologists. Northeastern University professor Max Diem and his team have developed an automatic method based on vibrational microspectroscopy that identifies the presence of metastatic cancer cells without the need for staining, and without human input.
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