# Color-coded surgery

- Institution: TED
- Department: TEDMED 2011
- Speaker: Quyen Nguyen
- Year: 2011
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Biology, Medicine and health
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/quyen_nguyen_color_coded_surgery)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Surgeons are taught from textbooks which conveniently color-code the types of tissues, but that's not what it looks like in real life -- until now. At TEDMED Quyen Nguyen demonstrates how a molecular marker can make tumors light up in neon green, showing surgeons exactly where to cut.

## Lectures

1. [Color-coded surgery](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/quyen_nguyen_color_coded_surgery/2156c9079575), 16 min (TED's player)