Olympus E-330 Has Sufficient Zoom To Spot Cancer [Off the Shelf DSLR Had Enough Zoom to Spot This]

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This is patently incredible news, folks–apparently, doctors out at Rice University managed to take a commercially-available Olympus E-330 and soup it up sufficiently to give it enough zoom to see oral cancer cells, on the camera’s LCD monitor.

Using a combination of fluorescent dyes, targeted nanoparticles, fiber optics and this camera, they managed to capture images at the cellular level and could identify cancer cells.

The team that put this together used three different types of cell samples–lab-grown cancer cell cultures, tissue samples from actual tumors, and healthy tissue. The results were shocking: apparently the cancerous, and precancerous, cells were so different from the regular cells that the differences were immediately visible, even on a small LCD screen. Thus, it’s been suggested that software could emerge that could instantly identify cancerous cells in a sample, useful for screenings and tracking patient improvements.

This is a huge development, frankly, giving pretty much anyone with access to a four hundred dollar camera (which even qualifies the poorest countries) the ability to do cancer screenings. And it all started with a DSLR camera and a few extra components.

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