"Getting out every last bit of a tumor can be difficult -- when you’ve got a patient open on the operating table, cancer cells don’t look any different from normal ones. But tag tumor cells with a glowing protein and turn the lights off, as scientists did in a recent study, and those things stand out like glo-sticks..."
20 September 2011
Image Guidance ~ New Bio-Optical Surgical Tools
Thanks to Discover for spotting Nature Medicine piece by Van Dam, et al in To Clean Out Tumors During Surgery, Make Them Glow...
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