A new study is bringing non-invasive cancer detection to the forefront with a new microscope. A group of scientists from the University of Washington's Department of Mechanical Engineering, Memorial ...

Medical engineers have developed a hand-held microscope that can differentiate cancerous cells from healthy ones much faster than pathology labs Dennis Wise/University of Washington Medical engineers ...

The process of identifying cancer—from taking a sample of a tumor to getting the results back from a laboratory—can be long-winded. When there isn’t time for all that, this new hand-held microscope ...

Once they open up a patient’s skull, there’s no time to send tissue samples to a pathology lab — where they are typically frozen, sliced, stained, mounted on slides and investigated under a bulky ...

Surgeons removing a malignant brain tumor don't want to leave cancerous material behind. But they're also trying to protect healthy brain matter and minimize neurological harm. Once they open up a ...

To serve remote areas of the world, doctors, nurses and field workers need equipment that is portable, versatile, and relatively inexpensive. Now researchers have built a compact, light-weight, ...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—To serve remote areas of the world, doctors, nurses and field workers need equipment that is portable, versatile, and relatively inexpensive. Now researchers at the University of ...