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Chang Lu, left, with Graduate Student Hsiang-Yu Wang

Caption: Purdue's Chang Lu, from left, in the lab with graduate student Hsiang-Yu Wang. Lu, a Purdue assistant professor of agricultural and biological engineering, has found that how fat cells become after passing through an electric field in a microscopic fluid-filled channel indicates whether a cell is normal, cancerous or already metastatic. His technique allows screening of single cells 300 times faster than previous methods.

Credit: Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Tom Campbell

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