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Optical Microscope Detects Rare Cancer Cells

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LOS ANGELES, July 9, 2012 — A new optical microscope that easily detects rare cells in real time could help doctors diagnose diseases earlier and could monitor disease treatments. The ability to distinguish and isolate rare cells — such as circulating cancer tumor cells and stem cells — from a large population of assorted cells has become increasingly important for disease detection. Typically, there are only a handful of these “rogue” cells among a billion healthy cells, but because they are precursors to metastasis — the spread of cancer that causes about 90 percent of cancer...Read full article

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    Published: July 2012
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    The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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