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Color-coded surgery TED Video
Rhody...
Tumor and Nerve staining is very cool, hats off to Dr. Roger Tsien (who shared Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry 2008) for creating the breakthrough green fluorescent protein which is the basis for the Tumor and Nerve staining technology. If this technology had been available when my wife had breast cancer five years ago, I suspect many lymph nodes would have been spared.Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut.
Rhody...