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Oct 1, 2011 16 min

Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery

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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. A video of this talk

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