Toward Glow-In-The-Dark Tumors: New Fluorescent Probe Could Light Up Cancer, Michigan Tech Study Reveals

What if you could plaster cancer cells with glowing "Here We Are" signs, so surgeons could be confident that they'd removed every last speck of a tumor? That's what Haiying Liu has in mind for his new fluorescent probe.

"Doctors need to pinpoint cancer tissue, but that can be hard," said Liu, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University.

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