'Intelligent' surgical knife can sniff out cancer tissue

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'Intelligent' surgical knife can sniff out cancer tissue

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/intelligent-surgical-knife-sniff-cancer-tissue-182304102.html"><img src="http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/F0fEzMBAiJA71UnZMBCfzA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2013-07-17T182304Z_1_CBRE96G1F4M00_RTROPTP_2_CANCER-KNIFE.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="Julia Balog demonstrates the Intelligent Knife at St Mary's Hospital in London" align="left" title="Julia Balog demonstrates the Intelligent Knife at St Mary's Hospital in London" border="0" /></a>By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have created an &quot;intelligent&quot; surgical knife that can detect in seconds whether tissue being cut is cancerous, promising more effective and accurate surgery in future. The device, built by researchers at London's Imperial College, could allow doctors to cut back on additional operations to remove further pieces of cancerous tumors. The technology, effectively merging an electrosurgical knife that cuts through tissue using heat with a mass spectrometer for chemical analysis, has also been shown to be able to distinguish beef from horsemeat. ...</p><br clear="all"/>

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