University of Utah.

• Position: Technology Innovation

Salt Lake City -- About 788,000 people worldwide died of liver cancer in 2015, the second-leading cause of cancer deaths, according to the latest statistics from the World Health Organization. One of the major challenges in combating this disease is detecting it early because symptoms often don't appear until later stages. But a team of researchers led by UNIVERSITY OF UTAH chemical engineering and chemistry professor Marc Porter and U surgeon and professor Courtney Scaife has developed a rapid portable screening test for liver cancer (hepatocellular carcinoma) that doesn't...