Short clip: PARC on detecting cancer with laser printing tech

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>> And you're also doing biomedical research. And what are some of the innovations you're working on now?

>> So, those also tie to some of the historical competencies. So you mentioned the laser printer. Parken assumed spelling is the place where that was invented. So we've developed -- we've actually worked closely with Scripps, The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. We didn't have any biomedical expertise. We had a lot of capability in hardware and software. So we partnered with them and they have helped us to understand some of the important problems in the biomedical space. Once we understand the problems, then we can unleash the researchers on trying to generate a really creative solution to solve it. The example I'd offer that relates to laser printing is of a method for detecting rare cells in the bloodstream. So if a person has cancer, there typically will be just a few cells that are shed from that tumor and that are circulating in the bloodstream. And the fraction of those cells is really low, it's like 1 in 10 million cells will be one of these rare cancer cells. We've come up with a method of using a laser to very rapidly scan slides and find those cells, locate them very quickly so that then you can go analyze them more deeply. And this is like -- it's, you know, a factor of 100 faster than any method that's out there on the market today.

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