How frustrating is it as a student when you’re trying to learn the different areas of the brain and it all looks the same? Each fissure is incredibly similar to the untrained eye. Makes me wonder how surgeons do it when performing intricate procedures.
However new research thanks to Dr Olsen is combatting that difficulty, not because surgeons don’t know where they are going in the brain, but because where oncology is concerned- it would be much easier to ensure it was gone if they can see it.
That’s right. They have found a way to make the cancerous cells glow. They glow bright green when a peptide from scorpion venom is administered. They can literally see where they need to get that cancer. This would mean that there would be less cases where people might have to undergo a second operation because “they thought they got it all!”
I can’t tell you how much I welcome this research. I’m not sure why. But I know I really love this little advance Dr Olsen has made. It’s a simple problem but he’s solved it with massive health and health care implications!
Well done sir!!!
If you would like to see it- the BBC released a link on a social network site: https://www.facebook.com/bbcearth/posts/919759378057619
Check it out!
Thoughts from my wave length 
It’s a pretty cool discovery isn’t it. I also love that it’s kind of old school in the sense that we are just using what is provided to us by nature like we have done for centuries previous. It’s amazing really! X
Its brilliant!! Brilliant in that its all there infront of us….available to use, and not to concoct an even more expensive mix of chemicals! Natures gift to us! Amazing!! X