MasSpec Pen

The MasSpec Pen is a tool currently under development for the detection of cancer. It is being developed by scientists at University of Texas Austin as of 2017.<ref>This Pen Can Diagnose Cancer in 10 Seconds, By Alexandra Seifferlin, time.com, September 6, 2017.</ref><ref>This 3-D printed pen lets surgeons detect cancer in 10 seconds, by Magdalena Petrova, CNBC, March 22, 2018.</ref><ref>Pen' identifies cancer in 10 seconds, By James Gallagher, BBC News website, 7 September 2017.</ref> The device uses mass spectrometry to perform chemical analyses.<ref name="abstract">Nondestructive tissue analysis for ex vivo and in vivo cancer diagnosis using a handheld mass spectrometry system, Jialing Zhang, John Rector1,2, John Q. Lin1, Jonathan H. Young1, Marta Sans1, Nitesh Katta2, Noah Giese1, Wendong Yu3, Chandandeep Nagi3, James Suliburk4, Jinsong Liu5, Alena Bensussan1, Rachel J. DeHoog1, Kyana Y. Garza1, Benjamin Ludolph1, Anna G. Sorace6, Anum Syed2, Aydin Zahedivash, Thomas E. Milner and Livia S. Eberlin,* Science Translational Medicine 06 Sep 2017.</ref>

External links

• Official web page, at University of Texas at Austin website

Articles

• "Mas Spec Pen", The New Future For Cancer Diagnosis: Mini Review, October 2017, by Bhupendra Gopalbhai Prajapati and Sankha Amalkrishna Bhattacharya, researchgate.net.
• From DESI to the MasSpec Pen: Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry for Tissue Analysis and Intrasurgical Cancer Diagnosis, by Hannah Marie Brown, Valentina Pirro, R. Graham Cooks, January 2018, American Association for Clinical Chemistry Journal.

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