'iKnife' device analyzes surgical smoke to ID cancers

Friday, July 19, 2013 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

A new device that analyzes the smoke that arises when an electrosurgical tool slices through or cauterizes flesh may help physicians determine, during a surgery, whether tissues they're removing are cancerous or not.

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