STANFORD, Calif. — Peering into the body and visualizing its molecular secrets, once the stuff of science fiction, is one step closer to reality with a study from researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. The research team is reporting that by looking at images from radiology scans—such as the CT scans a cancer patient routinely gets—radiologists can discern most of the genetic activity of a tumor. Such information could lead to diagnosing and treating patients individually, based on the unique characteristics of their disease. The study was published May 21 in the advance online edition of Nature Biotechnology.
