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  TED: Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery - Quyen Nguyen (2011)

  Posted: December 13th, 2011, 11:03am EST by TEDTalks

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  Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut.img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TEDTalks_video/~4/hr3DKG1JixE" height="1" width="1"/