Lighting Up Cancer
A dye that tracks tumors and glows under fluorescent light helps guide doctors during cancer surgery. Dutch doctors recently used the dye, likened to a homing device, to light up ovarian cancer cells during surgery in a small study of 10 patients.
“Ovarian cancer is notoriously difficult to see, and this technique allowed surgeons to spot a tumor 30 times smaller than the smallest they could detect using standard techniques,” Philip Low, the Purdue University chemistry professor who invented the dye, said in a statement. “By dramatically improving the detection of the cancer — by literally lighting it up — cancer removal is dramatically improved.”
Cancer removal is getting to be almost like video games… I’d be pretty good at that..
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Heathline now offers a cool interactive Human Brain in 3D you can play with, as part of their overall Body Maps.
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Image description: This photo of red blood cells was taken with a scanning electron micrograph.
Image courtesy of the Quantitative Light Imaging Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It is part of a research project funded by a National Science Foundation grant to study quantitative phase imaging of cells and tissues.
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Angiography or arteriography is a medical imaging technique used to visualize the inside, or lumen, of blood vessels and organs of the body
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Visualizing genetic interactions within one chromosome. An organism’s information content is highly interconnected.
Featured in the new collection of network visualizations Visual Complexity: Mapping Patterns of Information
(image by Martin Krzywinski)
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Blood vessels of the face, circa 1900
It is marvellous how every man’s individuality (that is to say, the union of a definite character with a definite intellect) accurately determines all his actions and thoughts down to the most unimportant details, as though it were a dye which pervaded them; and how, in consequence, one man’s whole course of life, in other words, his inner and outer history, turns out so absolutely different from another’s.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Free-Will and Fatalism
X-rayed Singing - What happens inside your body when you sing. Very cool!
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Yodel All the Way - the Science of Yodeling, because admit it, you’ve always kinda wondered.
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