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MIT pair honored for biopsy advance

11-06-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Two MIT graduate students reached the finals of last week's Collegiate Inventors Competition, organized by the National Inventors Hall of Fame Foundation, for their work on a device that makes needle biopsies less invasive.

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