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Spotlight: Oct 27, 2021

A new method can quickly assess if a tissue most resembles a solid, liquid, or gas. “We hope,” Ming Guo says, “doctors can directly tell if a tumor is very solid, meaning it can’t metastasize yet, or if it’s more fluid-like, and a patient is in danger.”

Oct 27, 2021

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