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Spotlight: Game-Changing Microscopy Technique for Identifying Cancerous Cells
Breast-conserving surgery, or lumpectomy, is a treatment for early-stage breast cancer. It’s important for surgeons to remove enough tissue around the tumor to ensure that no cancer cells are left, but still conserve the surrounding healthy tissue as much as possible. Traditionally, this requires a slow process of staining and examining tissue under a microscope. Researchers at NIST have developed
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