Scientists Invent Laser Surgery To Kill Cancer Cells Without Harming Healthy Tissues indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A new laser system that can zap cancer cells that are smaller than the width of a human hair without damaging the surrounding healthy tissue is being developed.
Experts at Edinburgh s Heriot-Watt University have been given £1.2 million by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) for the project.
The new system will be based around ultrafast, picosecond lasers that deliver energy in a series of pulses that are each just one trillionth of a second long.
Laser surgery expert Jonathan Shephard and colleagues have already demonstrated that the treatment concept can be successfully used on colorectal cancers.
They will now be now be working with clinicians at the University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust to apply the technique to brain cancers.
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