Handheld "Pen" May Bring Real-time Cancer Diagnosis to Surgeons' Fingertips (3 of 11) (IMAGE)

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Handheld "Pen" May Bring Real-time Cancer Diagnosis to Surgeons' Fingertips (3 of 11)

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The MasSpec Pen is a handheld probe that can non-destructively analyze human tissue samples to identify cancer.

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Vivian Abagiu/Univ. of Texas at Austin

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