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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Among her achievements: She invented an inexpensive, battery-operated optical imaging system that can detect premalignant tissues—no biopsy required—to help prevent oral and cervical cancer. Maria Oden , also a bioengineering professor, founded the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies.

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