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Brain Tumour Test Gives Results in Under Two Hours

Brain Tumour Test Gives Results in Under Two Hours8 oct2 min

Welcome to Onco Life Centre Podcast. A new NHS England pilot will let surgeons identify a brain tumour's type during an operation, using a nanopore DNA test developed in Nottingham. This episode explains how the test works and how doctors hope to diagnose brain tumours faster. You'll learn: - How nanopore sequencing reads DNA from small tissue samples - What methylation tags reveal about the type of tumour - Why the two-hour figure is an early result and not a final diagnosis - What the 202...