Butterfly vision inspires surgical camera for cancer operations

4/6/2018

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The Engineer (April 6) -- Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Washington University in St. Louis have developed the tiny surgical camera, which connects a surgeon’s goggles and detects infrared signals given off by tumour-binding dyes. This lets the surgeon find and remove all of the cancerous tissue. The study was published in the journal Optica. Also: Geek.com (April 7), Zenopa (April 9), Cosmos (April 9)


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This story was published April 6, 2018.