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Color-coded surgery

Name: Color-coded surgery
Uploaded: 2011-12-13T16:03:30+00:00
Duration: 16 min 8 s
Description: Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut.

Quyen Nguyen • TEDMED 2011 • October 2011

Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life — until now. At…

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