How Blind Women In India Detect Early Breast Cancer | Web-Slinging Silk Becomes Real
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How Blind Women In India Detect Early Breast Cancer | Web-Slinging Silk Becomes Real

Dec 19, 2024
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A program trains women as tactile medical examiners to identify tumors before they show up on imaging scans. And, in a materials science discovery, scientists made a liquid silk solution that hardens and picks up objects—not unlike Spider-Man’s web.

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Author
Rasha Aridi, Kathleen Davis
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