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Nigerian Scientist Develops Special Goggles To See Cancer Cells by ruby360: 11:15pm On Jul 25, 2015
A Nigerian-born scientist, Dr. Samuel Achilefu, has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for 2014 for creating cancer-visualizing glasses. Achilefu, a professor of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, and his team developed the imaging technology in cancer diagnosis into a wearable night vision-like goggles so surgeons could see the cancer cells while operating.

Dr. Achilefu won a scholarship from the French government to study at the University of Nancy, according to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a regional newspaper in St. Louis, U.S., and is the 87th person to receive the annual award since it was established in 1931.
“The goggles function fantastically’’. They have been used on humans for the first time by surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Four patients suffering from breast cancer and over two dozen patients with melanoma or liver cancer have been operated on using the goggles since they were developed.

source: http://nutripotblog.com/nigerian-scientist-develops-goggles-to-see-cancer-cells/
Re: Nigerian Scientist Develops Special Goggles To See Cancer Cells by Belvine33(f): 12:12am On Jul 26, 2015
Great!
Re: Nigerian Scientist Develops Special Goggles To See Cancer Cells by ruby360: 7:27pm On Jul 27, 2015
Nigerians outside the country keep doing us proud.

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