Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons view and fight cancer (CNN)

Tumor Paint: Changing the way surgeons fight cancer - CNN.com:

"Olson and his team were able to identify a small protein, or peptide, in the scorpion's venom and use it to produce Tumor Paint. They grew a brain tumor on a mouse's back and injected the "paint" into a tail vein; within an hour, the cancer was lighting up. Tumor Paint was 500 times more sensitive than an MRI, and it didn't just work for brain cancer but breast, skin, prostate and colon cancers."

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