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Engineering a Tool To Fight Cancer
The Albany Times Union featured Badri Roysam's
RPI-Trace3D system, which can swiftly map capillaries in a live
tumor. Roysam, director of the Center for Subsurface Sensing and
Imaging Systems at Rensselaer, and his students have developed
the automated system that is now at use at Harvard.
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Gary Gold
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The Times Union touts the system as a way
to improve the search for better cancer-fighting drugs. "With
RPI-Trace3D, a process that used to take days now takes two minutes
… Researchers hope that understanding how blood vessels grow
in cancer tumors could lead to the development of drugs that prevent
such growth — and, ultimately, the cancer's spread."
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