This pen can detect cancer in just 10 seconds

The detection and identification of cancer has seen incredible improvements over the past several decades, offering a new lease on life to those who would have been out of luck in the past. Now, a new instrument invented, designed, and built by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin could further revolutionize the detection of cancer. It's a pen-like tool that can identify cancer tissue in as little as 10 seconds. The tool, which its inventors have named the MasSpec Pen, doesn't scan a...