UBC Medicine

The biggest challenge facing life scientists — beyond curing disease, of course — is explaining what they do. Most of them are labouring on molecular mysteries that are difficult to visualize and involve a cascade of processes, and thus elude easy comprehension by the general public. And in these attention-deficient times, if it’s not easily understood, people move [...]

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The Verisante Aura detects melanomas. The VELscope highlights oral cancers. The PortaMon looks for bladder disease. Three distinct devices, but all three are examples of UBC researchers developing or deploying various forms of light to find pathologies that elude old-fashioned examination with the naked eye. The Verisante Aura (demonstrated in photo at right by one [...]

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