MRI Could Use Sugary ‘Slime’ to Find Cancer

MRI Could Use Sugary ‘Slime’ to Find Cancer
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An MRI that detects cellular slime could someday replace invasive biopsies to confirm that patients have cancer.

The experimental technique uses magnetic resonance imaging to spot telltale sugar molecules shed by the outer membranes of cancerous cells.

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