Tiny microscopes will save lives: Weill Cornell doctors have high hopes for multiphoton endoscopy

Watt W. Webb, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor in Engineering and co-inventor of multiphoton microscopy, holds his lab's latest multiphoton endoscope prototype.

From precancerous lesions in the bladder to polyps in the colon, pathologists are constantly examining tissue biopsies for diagnoses.

Ezra Magazine, Winter 2012

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