a blood test in 15 minutes;Astronomy and oncology do make obvious bedfellows

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Astronomy and oncology do not make obvious bedfellows, but the search for new stars and galaxies has surprising similarities with the search for cancerous cells. This has led to new ways of speeding up image analysis in cancer research.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/celestial-bodies

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