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Nature Medicine 15, 713 (1 July 2009) | doi:10.1038/nm0709-713a;

High-tech bandages lighten the load of light therapy

Jon Evans

Tiny electronic lights embedded in a small, flexible bandage may provide a new way to zap tumor cells in people with skin cancer. The technology, emerging from two British companies, Polymertronics and Lumicure, harnesses a type of light source known as 'organic' light–emitting diodes (OLEDs).

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