# Quyen Nguyen: Color-coded surgery

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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2011
- Runtime: 16 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/QuyenNguyen_2011P)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/QuyenNguyen_2011P?play=1)