News tagged with tissue biopsy

Team deploys hundreds of tiny untethered surgical tools in first animal biopsies

(Medical Xpress)—By using swarms of untethered grippers, each as small as a speck of dust, Johns Hopkins engineers and physicians say they have devised a new way to perform biopsies that could provide a ...

Medical research Apr 23, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Scientists make brain tumours glow

Stereotactic needle biopsies are an established standard procedure in the diagnostic identification of brain lymphomas and certain brain tumours (gliomas). Up until now the tissue samples removed had to be ...

Cancer Apr 24, 2013 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0