From using light to track cancer treatment progress, to a blood test that can spot cancer, Boston University researchers are working on innovative and potentially lifesaving projects that could transform cancer prevention, treatment, and care.<\/p>\n
The Brink <\/em>spoke with ten BU researchers\u2014including Erica Pratt<\/a>, Darren Roblyer<\/a>, Sheila Russo<\/a>, and Wilson Wong<\/a><\/span> of the College of Engineering\u2014that are bringing hope for the future.<\/p>\n These innovative, potentially lifesaving projects could transform cancer prevention, treatment, and care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":169399,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,257,899,1075,907,1224,909,908,1036,1080],"tags":[1076,1124,246,633],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169388"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169400,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169388\/revisions\/169400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Read the full story at BU’s<\/em> The Brink<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"