Microscopy for 1,800 patients.

And so previous studies had only focused on microscopy.

The light that the fluorescence emits can go through tissue.

And this is what I think is the magic of fluorescence.

Microscopy, the standard WHO procedure, reaches from 40 to 60 percent reliability.

Well we took the manuscript, and we decided to image it in X ray fluorescence imaging.

And the cool thing about fluorescence is that it's not only bright, it actually can shine through tissue.

So I said, wouldn't it be great if we could find a way to see nerves with fluorescence?

And when we made a solution of this, tagged with the fluorescence and injected in the body of a mouse, their nerves literally glowed.

Knowing that a missed patient by microscopy infects up to 15 people, healthy people, per year, you can be sure that we have saved lots of lives.

These bacteria were not uncovered sooner because they are also among the smallest of all Earth's organisms so minute that they cannot be seen with conventional optical microscopy.

What needs to happen now is further development of our technology along with development of the instrumentation that allows us to see this sort of fluorescence in the operating room.

I just want to briefly highlight, the blue rods are the scores of microscopy only at the five clinics in Dar es Salaam on a population of 500,000 people, where 15,000 reported to get a test done.

I won't go into this very much, but our technology, besides being able to tag tumor and metastatic lymph nodes with fluorescence, we can also use the same smart three part molecule to tag gadolinium onto the system so you can do this noninvasively.