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Nov-2017
Nov-2017
McMaster students win international prize for skin cancer-detecting device
A group of four McMaster University students has won a $50,000 prize to develop their idea for a handheld device that detects skin cancer.
The recent grads — all students in electrical biomedical engineering at the Hamilton university — earned the International James Dyson Award for their final year project, called The sKan.
They say the non-invasive device can diagnose melanoma by monitoring the heat emissions of various cells.
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