Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery

http://www.ted.com Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut.

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[Sylocat]

Another beautiful and brilliant Asian woman. I like this trend, TED.

[ezeruz1]

I really wish TED had more more views, this is important.

[JersX01]

I really hope this works!

[prolotherapy]

7 dislikes think they will never get cancer in their lifetime!

[MAVIEGUITARS]

thank you for sharing

[davidsdiego]

Immensely informative! Thanks for sharing!

[sorover1]

1. Would it be possible to use recombinant DNA to modify white blood cells via in vitro to be directed to the florescence? For example: use a wet lab to modify CD8 to be directed to the florescence molecule for possible destruction.

2. Once the fluoresces molecule is cleaved at contact with desired tissue. Could the anion portion of the tracer be tagged in use to activate a drug which is free floating in the cytoplasm? This way the drug is only activated at the site desired.

[luckyaungmyint]

this is outstanding; i love it. way to go. as a pathologist, i know what is that mean. great for medicine...so called "best medicine"...

[leonvinhle]

Making sense to me! She's vietnamese! Great

[madk777]

This is amazing! It is obvious that technology will produce better results in excising tumors and minimize inadvertent injuries in the OR. It's a shame that funding for such endeavors may be difficult, since drugs for one-time use are less likely to be developed. With the appropriate funding anything is possible however.

[xryz9213]

Hope in the near future this technology can tag somenew color materias to our contrast medium, so we radiologist can point out what happen in the body before surgery. LYC (TW)