The diagnosis of cancer and especially the evaluation of cancer that is removed from the body is 100-and-something-year-old technique that has advanced very little. We’ve developed a technology based on ultrafast lasers where we scan specimens as they’re cut out of women undergoing surgery for breast cancer. The advantage is we can generate images in seconds.

Originally released by Inside Science, 2017. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 27, 2017.

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