In this week’s Medical Discovery News by UTMB’s David Niesel and Norbert Herzog: Researchers are developing cancer “goggles” that will allow surgeons see tumor cells right in the operating room. This new technology uses LS301, a fluorescent dye combined with a short chain of amino acids called peptide that is only absorbed by cancer cells and glows under infrared light. A surgeon can distinguish glowing cancer cells from normal cells and observe when they are completely removed. The column also appears in the Abilene Reporter-News.