Verisante Aura

 

 

 

 

 

 

Detecting melanoma early greatly increases a patient’s chances of survival, but visual inspections can be time-consuming and imprecise. Doctors using the Raman-spectroscopy-based Aura can scan every mole on a patient’s body in 15 minutes, for far speedier and more accurate results. The laser in the device excites and measures vibrations in skin molecules, which vibrate differently when cancerous

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