Screaming Cancer Cells
Mikes pick up the sounds of cancer
"Cancer patients could have their disease diagnosed with microphones after scientists discovered that cells "scream" when exposed to infrared light.
Researchers at Manchester University have found that human cell samples produce a distinctive noise when heated with an infrared lamp.
Doctors hope to use the noise produced by cancer cells to develop accurate diagnostic techniques without the need for painful surgery to obtain tissue samples.
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He said the sound made by cancer cells was subtly different from that made by healthy cells, "like a tuba in an orchestra being horribly out of tune".
"Cancer patients could have their disease diagnosed with microphones after scientists discovered that cells "scream" when exposed to infrared light.
Researchers at Manchester University have found that human cell samples produce a distinctive noise when heated with an infrared lamp.
Doctors hope to use the noise produced by cancer cells to develop accurate diagnostic techniques without the need for painful surgery to obtain tissue samples.
(...)
He said the sound made by cancer cells was subtly different from that made by healthy cells, "like a tuba in an orchestra being horribly out of tune".
posted by patootie at 4:39 PM
2 Comments:
that's fascinating! every living organism gives off its own unique frequency. i wonder if this is what dogs pick up on when they have been used to detect malignant tumors. althought that may be based more on scent than sound.
You know, I thought along those lines too, about all the stories of ancient acoustic technology that somehow was lost. That everything, animate or not reponds and transmits vibration in what might seem strange and wondrous ways.
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