Inside IISc’s Glowing Paper: A New Hope for Early Liver Cancer Detection
© ViScienceBlogs 2025. All rights reserved. When a Piece of Paper Begins to Glow, So Does Hope In the heart of Bengaluru, something extraordinary unfolded not with lasers or billion-dollar machines, but with a sheet of humble filter paper and a spark of brilliant Indian ingenuity. At the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), a team of researchers developed a paper-based sensor that glows in the presence of a key enzyme linked to liver cancer. No hospital beds, no scanners, no long queues just a glowing disc that could change how early-stage cancer is diagnosed, especially in low-resource settings. This isn’t just about science. It’s about lives. About access. And about reimagining what diagnostics can look like in rural clinics, government hospitals, and homes across India and the world. What's the Discovery ? IISc scientists have created a low cost paper-based biosensor that glows in the presence of liver biomarkers. Image featured here was originally published by t...