Engineering undergrads at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, have developed an inexpensive, handheld device to diagnose melanoma before it is too late, and have won the international James Dyson Award (JDA) for their work.
The diagnostic tool goes by the name of sKan, and it uses thermistors to monitor the heat emissions of cancerous cells in real time, revealing lesions or moles to be dangerous far sooner than would be evident visually.
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