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1,362,811 views | Jorge Soto • TEDGlobal 2014

The future of early cancer detection?

Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple forms of cancer. Onstage at TEDGlobal 2014, he demonstrates a working prototype of the mobile platform for the first time.

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Along with a crew of technologists and scientists, Jorge Soto is developing a simple, noninvasive, open-source test that looks for early signs of multiple forms of cancer. Onstage at TEDGlobal 2014, he demonstrates a working prototype of the mobile platform for the first time.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

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Cancer technologist

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Jorge Soto is helping develop a simple, noninvasive test that identifies cancer.