Scientific American: The “Woodstock of Physics” Is Finally Living Up to Its Promise

Unlike today’s MRIs, which locate only the hydrogen in your body to map of your innards, future HTS-based machines will allow doctors to image any of the elements in your body. They will image sodium to learn if chemotherapy is successfully killing tumor cells, and oxygen to track glucose metabolism in tumors, offering a safer alternative to PET scans. These machines will reveal the intricate structures of the cell walls of viruses so that scientists can design and deploy molecular missiles to infiltrate them.

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