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Palm-sized Cancer Testing

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February 17, 2010

A Harvard graduate student has figured out a way to detect cancer with a device that is far more portable and less expensive than existing lab methods. Watch this videocast to find out how the palm-sized device uses nuclear magnetic resonance to detect cancer in a blood sample.

Related Links:

“Palm NMR and One-Chip NMR,” ISSCC 2010 Session 27, Directions in Health, Energy & RF, 27.2 (PDF)

 

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