Detecting cancer in a flash
By Peter Weiss
From Los Angeles, at a meeting of the American Physical Society
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Even at the cellular level, there’s a special glow to good health. That’s the conclusion of a research team that has demonstrated the ability to distinguish cancer cells from healthy ones with pulses of laser light.