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Waterloo News
Shirley Tang
February 12, 2013

Improving lives at nano-scale

Invisible to the naked eye, nanotechnology is being combined with biotechnology to achieve medical advances such as the early detection of life-threatening diseases through a simple device, similar to a glucometer, for example. Shirley Tang and her team believe that the primary goal of their research should be to help improve lives through these scientific breakthroughs.

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