NASA's Electronic Nose May Provide Neurosurgeons With A New Weapon Against Brain Cancer

Thursday, April 30, 2009 - 07:22 in Biology & Nature

An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odor differences in normal and cancerous brain cells. The results of the pilot study open up new possibilities for neurosurgeons in the fight against brain cancer.

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