Staff Reporter :
A group of Bangladeshi researchers have invented a mechanism for detection of cancer in low cost and short time process.
The researchers on Wednesday said that the mechanism can detect cancer through the blood test in less than five minutes at a cost of Tk 500, when currently cancer diagnosis is a long and costly process.
The researchers team from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet revealed their finding at a press conference at International Mother Language Institute Segunbagicha in Dhaka.
The press conference was jointly organised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Education Ministry.
Professor Dr Yasmeen Haque of the team said, “The device is able to detect cancer in just five minutes and it will cost around Tk 500 to diagnose cancer.”
She said also diagnosis of cancer using the nonlinear optics is for the first time ever in the world.
Researchers said that they have applied the technology for a patient in the US and Bangladesh of invention titled ‘Method and system based on nonlinear optical characteristics of body fluids for diagnosis of neoplasia’.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the much-needed simpler invention is a great achievement for the SUST and Bangladesh.
University Grants Commission Chairman Abdul Mannan also expressed similar statement.
Nurul Islam Nahid said, “In the remaining technology, a patient needs to spend Tk 8000 to Tk 10,000 for detection of cancer through tests taking six to seven days for providing results. But with the new invention of the SUST team, cancer detection will require few minutes and less than Tk 500.”
Education Minister said, “Today is a historic day for Bangladesh marking the epoch making invention.”
Yasmeen Haque said, the technology enabled device will be ready within a year.
She said also the phenomena of nonlinear optical phase change when a sufficiently high LASER beam is passed through the blood serum yields a characteristic nonlinearity parameter value.
The innovation is a part of the project titled ‘Innovative Biomarker Detection System Using Nonlinear Optics’ under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project under the UGC with funds provided by the government and the World Bank.
A group of 25 researchers is working on the Tk 9-crore project since 2016.
Higher officials from the ministry and the commission also present the programme.
A group of Bangladeshi researchers have invented a mechanism for detection of cancer in low cost and short time process.
The researchers on Wednesday said that the mechanism can detect cancer through the blood test in less than five minutes at a cost of Tk 500, when currently cancer diagnosis is a long and costly process.
The researchers team from the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) in Sylhet revealed their finding at a press conference at International Mother Language Institute Segunbagicha in Dhaka.
The press conference was jointly organised by the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the Education Ministry.
Professor Dr Yasmeen Haque of the team said, “The device is able to detect cancer in just five minutes and it will cost around Tk 500 to diagnose cancer.”
She said also diagnosis of cancer using the nonlinear optics is for the first time ever in the world.
Researchers said that they have applied the technology for a patient in the US and Bangladesh of invention titled ‘Method and system based on nonlinear optical characteristics of body fluids for diagnosis of neoplasia’.
Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid said the much-needed simpler invention is a great achievement for the SUST and Bangladesh.
University Grants Commission Chairman Abdul Mannan also expressed similar statement.
Nurul Islam Nahid said, “In the remaining technology, a patient needs to spend Tk 8000 to Tk 10,000 for detection of cancer through tests taking six to seven days for providing results. But with the new invention of the SUST team, cancer detection will require few minutes and less than Tk 500.”
Education Minister said, “Today is a historic day for Bangladesh marking the epoch making invention.”
Yasmeen Haque said, the technology enabled device will be ready within a year.
She said also the phenomena of nonlinear optical phase change when a sufficiently high LASER beam is passed through the blood serum yields a characteristic nonlinearity parameter value.
The innovation is a part of the project titled ‘Innovative Biomarker Detection System Using Nonlinear Optics’ under Higher Education Quality Enhancement Project under the UGC with funds provided by the government and the World Bank.
A group of 25 researchers is working on the Tk 9-crore project since 2016.
Higher officials from the ministry and the commission also present the programme.
