NASA's electronic nose may provide neurosurgeons with a new weapon against brain cancer
Friday, May 1, 2009 - 12:21
in Biology & Nature
An unlikely multidisciplinary scientific collaboration has discovered that an electronic nose developed for air quality monitoring on Space Shuttle Endeavour can also be used to detect odour differences in normal and cancerous brain cells. The results of the pilot study open up new possibilities for neurosurgeons in the fight against brain cancer...