New Laser To Find Cancers

The blood transports cancer cells to other parts of our body, and researchers have now developed a new kind of laser that can find and zap those tumor cells from the outside of the skin. Livescience has written an article about this new diagnostic tool.

This tool may be in the future as a commercial diagnostic tool, but the laser is up to 1,000 times more sensitive than the current methods that are now used to detect tumor cells in the blood. This was recently reported by the researchers in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Blood samples are typically taken …read more