Cancer detection
made faster
Belle Dumé, PhyiscsWeb,
July 20, 2004
Early detection of cancer
cells may soon be quicker and easier thanks
to a new technique developed at the Scripps-PARC
Institute for Advanced Biomedical Sciences
in the US. The new approach, which uses fibre-optic
array scanning technology (FAST), can identify
cancer cells at least 500 times faster than
the best existing method. The researchers
who developed the technique hope that it could
make early screening for cancer as routine
as a blood test.
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