'MasSpec Pen' for Accurate Cancer Detection during Surgery (IMAGE)

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'MasSpec Pen' for Accurate Cancer Detection during Surgery

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The MasSpec Pen (left) could someday help cancer surgeons determine the edges of tumors in the operating room; researchers used it to analyze thyroid tissue ex vivo (right) and are now testing it in vivo with human patients.

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Eberlin lab/University of Texas at Austin

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