The article I chose to present on was called, Hope for quicker, more accurate cancer cell identification. Researchers in Illinois have discovered a way to use laser lights to identify cancerous cells in humans. The results would be shown in 5 minutes from taking the scan, and shows cancerous cells in red and normal cells in blue. They claim that the results are 99% accurate in showing where the line of cancerous cells and normal cells meet. The way this machine identifies the cancerous cells is by using a laser light NIVI to see what the cells are made of. Cancerous cells have a high amount of protein that normal cells do not have making it easy to identify. The technology doesn't exactly make a whole world of sense to me, but I don't really understand any medical technology. I think this could really be a great think if it became easily accessible to the world. Advances like this one could help save so many lives. In class we briefly discussed that there wouldn't be any negatives to this technology, which to me says that not all technology is really bad. I feel like a lot of what we have read talks about how technology is such a bad thing, when in reality it can help all of us out tremendously.
http://www.gizmag.com/lasers-identify-cancer-cells/17070/
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