oesophageal cancer

by Mark Harden, CU Anschutz Medical Campus edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan  Editors’ notes Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain An endoscopy—using a fiber‐optic tube to peer inside the body and collect biopsy samples—can be an invaluable way to detect cancer of the esophagus. But sometimes, an endoscopy can miss esophageal cancer, which doesn’t get detected until […]

by Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres edited by Sadie Harley, reviewed by Robert Egan   Tethered O2E capsule and its imaging of human oral mucosa. Credit: Nature Biomedical Engineering (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01462-0 Researchers from Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and the Medical University of Vienna have developed an advanced imaging technique called “O2E” that allows clinics