New high-tech glasses detect cancer cells during surgery

Monday, March 10, 2014 - 08:20 in Health & Medicine

A team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis (WUSTL) and the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson led by Samuel Achilefu have created a pair of high-tech glasses that help surgeons visualize cancer cells during surgeries, which glow blue when viewed through the glasses.

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