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CHICAGO, July 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- At the 2022 AACC Annual Scientific Meeting & Clinical Lab Expo, laboratory medicine experts will present th

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 E-Mail IMAGE: Dr. James Suliburk, head of endocrine surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, using the MasSpec Pen during a surgery. view more  Credit: James Suliburk/Baylor College of Medicine AUSTIN, Texas -- A diagnostic tool called the MasSpec Pen has been tested for the first time in pancreatic cancer patients during surgery. The device is shown to accurately identify tissues and surgical margins directly in patients and differentiate healthy and cancerous tissue from banked pancr...

Reset A handheld device originally used to diagnose tumors on contact could also be used to prevent fish and meat fraud or mislabeling, a global problem that is causing headaches all around the world. Image credit: The researchers Abby Gatmaitan, a chemistry graduate student from the University of Texas, discovered that the MasSpec Pen – a mass spectrometry-based cancer detection and diagnosis system – could be used to sample raw meat or fish and identify the species it comes from. She tes...

Fraudulent Fish Foiled by Cancer-Catching Pen Seafood is often falsely labeled, but a handheld device can tell tuna from tilapia in seconds Print Seafood fraud is widespread. One study found that, for commonly mislabeled species such as snapper and tuna, 87 and 59 percent of samples, respectively, were incorrectly identified. Credit: Getty Images Advertisement When chemistry graduate student Abby Gatmaitan first visited the University of Texas at Austin on a recruiting tour, she learned about t...

Product News: Handheld ‘MasSpec Pen’ can reveal meat and fish fraud within seconds The MasSpec Pen can authenticate the type and purity of meat samples in as little as 15 seconds 01 Apr 2021 Meat and fish fraud are global problems, costing consumers billions of dollars every year. On top of that, mislabeling products can cause problems for people with allergies, religious or cultural restrictions. Current methods to detect this fraud, while accurate, are slower than inspectors would like. N...

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