Amazing.. We need this in the UK, I have lost too many family member's to Cancer.. It need's to change and hopefully this is the way forward.. But we need it now!! I shall keep following this and ensuring people know it's out there.. Thanks

Jorge Soto and his team are an inspiration to humanity. To give this technology away for the good of "mankind" is a beautiful sentiment. I only hope now it will aid those in need.

WHERE CAN I SUPPORT THIS!?

As a survivor who has been missed diagnosed initially (which pushed me towards stage 2b by the time I was properly diagnosed) this has made me so happy...AND it's open source. Incredible.

My mind has been blown by how incredible this project is. We need to spread the word.

we're going to need much more frequent Nobel prizes given out.

Excellent news!!! This will change too many lives!!! Thanks to Jorge Soto and his team!

Thank you TED for these informative speeches. I love everyone I see on stage. I love this "coming together-ness". Humanity needs minds like these.

Simple, short, sweet! I like this talk!

Wow open source! May god bless this man and his team and may his aunt recover too..this isreal research coming from the heart

Brilliant!!!! Not an open source. Great idea.

Just shared this on facebook. Such an incredible discovery. The mind is an incredible thing, and BRAVO to those scientists who work so diligently for the good of mankind! This is very exciting! Congrats to all involved and thank you for your genius.

amazing guys..all the very best..!!

like like like like like.... Georgeus.... wonderful invention and investigation .... those guys are awesome they deserve a Nobel prize and all the support of medical community

Fantastic work!

Thank you.

This is amazing.

As soon as I saw the title to this TED talk, I was automatically interested. Sadly, cancer runs in my family, and it always will unfortunately. I lost both of my grandparents to breast and lung cancer. Soto's talk hits home for me. Two of my aunts have also been diagnosed with breast cancer in the past as well. Meaning, when I am older I will have to get mammograms more often than the average woman. The way Jorge Soto started off his talk made me feel sad, yet also frustrated at the same time. He talked about how his aunt never smoked, drank, and played sports for more than half of her life. Which led me to my question, why her? Now, that doesn't go to say that I wish cancer upon certain people, because I don't. However, it sounds like she took care of her body, and cared for. Yet she ended up with cancer, why? I have always thought cancer hits those who don't see it coming, or you don't expect it to happen to. Which is sad, yet true. He also made a point that due to her lifestyle, that is why it took the physicians almost six months to properly diagnose her. I am not saying that they were in the wrong, because I wouldn't have assumed it was cancer right from the start, but six months seems like a LONG time! Exactly why when she was diagnosed she was already stage three. Have it being 2017 (2014 was when this video was published), one would assume that cancer would be one of the top things to check for would be cancer. Later on in the talk, it was mentioned that that a blood sample could potentially be used to detect early signs of cancer cells. if that is the case, that would be ground-breaking. I say that because more than usual, when people are diagnosed with cancer it is when the cancer has already reached either stages three or four. Which in other words, a point of no return. Not many people mention the word "affordable" when discussing the term "cancer". However at the end of Soto's talk, he talks about a clinical trial that is more affordable for patient's and their families. When someone is diagnosed with cancer, it can become a financial burden to the family that is affected. Overall, I agree with more than one point that Jorge brought up throughout his talk. I felt that he did a very good job, and felt that the non-invasive blood test sounds like a great idea.

Sounded too good to be true, did some research: Turns out only the device (basicly a camera stand) is "open source". The actual tests happening in the little pippetes are patented by Miroculus (according to their website). So it totally depends on them and their investors how "cheap" this actually gets in the end. It's likely that more patents are involved too. Secondly he didn't say how the actual test procedure works. Only how the results get photographed and processed. Is it as simple as pouring a few drops of blood into this? How does it need to be prepared? Can a normal doctor do this (quickly) or do you need proper lab equipment? Do doctors need to buy this from Miroculus aswell? Thirdly the images get sent to one single knowledge-based system for processing. This opens a whole new can of worms concerning patient data privacy. Will you be able to send your test in anonymously? Or are we basicly creating a huge biometric database of everyone? So yeah. I'd not celebrate yet. It's not gonna be a thing for a couple years anyway. But i sincerely hope they aren't lying and actually have something good. Fingers crossed.

Amazing Idea man, thank you!!! Jorge Soto

That's fantastic.

Goosebumps!

Enhorabuena, Chile, Panama, Mexico, Israel, Grecia buen trabajo!! KEEP GOING ON!!

Great news to us.. Cancer is way too common to be ignored. It comes to people who are young now. When older time it was more a sickness associated more with old age. Thanks for making it more transparent for us. Wishing u and team success in your research

It is a new approach to detect and differentiate between different subtypes of cancer, Happy we've started to do it in Egypt

This is incredible.

Hats off man!

great advanced work

WHAT AN HONOR FOR MEXICO YOU ARE JORGE! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Amazing!

Awesome!

***accurate and affordable test that has the potential to dramatically change how cancer procedures and diagnostics have been done ... You only need one milliliter of blood and a relatively simple array of tools ... it can be routinely diagnosed at the very early stages ***What a promising statement! Loud applause! And where is it all in 6 years??

How can someone dislike this?

Wow!

WOW!

wow!

@Jorge Soto this story really touched me, i will tell my family and friends ^-^. don't stop here do a kickstarter perhaps?! is there anywhere online i (we) can follow your progress?

Very important talk. Though, I was hoping to hear about the software techniques used to classify the samples. It's fascinating to think of all the mathematical, computer theoretic, and physics discoveries that led to the development of the software that makes all this possible. Support basic research.

Thanks Ted to doing that journey. I have no cancer and i hope i will never have but i know that infortunately maybe can happen . But if you continue whit updating this new revolutionary BioTecnology i hope that billion of people will have a more longer life and more happy memories whit the friends . I appreciate this amazing work and just hold on . Greets TED

Fantastic. I know what early detection means.

God bless his soul

Thank You God!

"Oh, no! It's available worldwide thanks to 3D printing and it's open-source! Curse them!" - says every pharmaceutical company everywhere. lol

I want one ASAP

this vid saved me cancer :)

This could be huge.

Thank you. To everyone working on this world altering project, I solute you. SCIENCE FTW.

As a medical student, I think this can easily have a profound impact on patients. Although it seems simple enough, there are so so many complexities involved with this research, and I think we're still at least a decade out of reach for its practical use. He says it's sensitive, but how specific is it? Just because a test can detect all cancer doesn't mean it should be used. There are problems with false positives as well, since they can cause unnecessary harm in the form of added stress, unnecessary procedures and treatment. I do think tests like this are the future, and I hope it comes sooner than I think it will.

2018 now.. what happening with this project?!? the web site miroculus.com not show any details about it!

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Hi please help what's the name of this device and is it available to buy? Where can I find more information online?

What a amazing technology. When will it be available to the public worldwide?

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This is a great idea. What is happening with this technology today? This video was done in 2014. Do we have any advances in the last 4 years?

dr soto parabéns,por este grande avanco,so espero que aqeles que querem reduzir a populacao nao querem sabotar o seu conjunto,os cumprimentos do mexico por esta descoberta

I'm curious to see how much does it take for his team and all the research to mysteriously disappear...

it's alrady 2016, why, why does it take so long!

Early cancer detection is an urging issue in todays healthcare and there are still many steps to take. I am curious about the data on sensitivity and specifity of mRNAs. Then I am curious about how he intended to implement the device: There are (blood test) biomarkers available for screening (i.e. PSA for prostate cancer - one of the most common cancer in men, which is quite specific as well). So I ask myself what makes his project a novelty - the easy-to-use approach? The overall-availability? The cloud-networking approach? I wish good success to him and I hope that his projects will be fruitful, heading towards early detection and treatment initiation by doctors.

I consider this project such an important advance in the early diagnosis of diseases that can be found at a molecular level involving transcriptomics. I would like to know if this microRNAs are going to be useful only for a preventional detection or if in a nearly future this 20-25 nucleotides could be modified not just only to prevent a disease but to eradicate it directly from our DNA. Is this diagnostic capable of use also for another pathologies or is it only for cancer?

A lot of the really cool stuff I see on Ted I find is really in the early development stages. This talk makes this look like a slam dunk detection system but conspicuously leaves out how far into the future we'll see this as a common tool used in hospitals. how far off is this to actually being implemented in most working medical facilities? What hurdles are left to gain governmental approval?

The test grid is only 8x12, so you only need an 8x12 resolution camera. Any $1 webcam from ebay would do it. It could also just be done in a hand-held device, as tiny as a diabetic's blood sugar monitor.

@9:35 he says that the test is accurate. If so what's its sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value for various types of cancers? And can it distinguish between nonprogressive, gradually progressive, and highly progressive cancers?

Will this be able to be used for the detection of Alzheimer disease also?

He is so altruistic to make this great innovation open source.

Amazing presentation, but he didn't really explain exactly how the device works, I'd love to know that.

Has probably been bought and shelved by now. Haven't heard any more about this since this video was made !!!

If it's open source, where can I find it? I can't find it in google right now

I would love to know the name of the program he used to show the different types of cancer/diseases and their matching dysfunctional gene expression. Anyone know the name or where I can get my hands on it?

This simple, noninvasive, and awesome open-source test in combination using CBD's and other alternative treatments would ultimately be ideal, as opposed to the mostly expensive and unsuccessful radiation and chemo.

How can we help?

Deserving of a Nobel for Medicine, imho. Probably won't get one while anyone involved is still alive, though.

Is Tony Montana giving this TED Talk? #nohate

Early cancer detection or diagnoses has no relation to mortality rate. Number one rule in epidemiology. But interesting video.

Detection democratise its cool, just try to share you info of the clouds with many other places. NSA and big pharma corp may trash your ideal approach. Remember cancer treatment is a huge business.

I really get what it's like to see someone stating their opinion or belief that completely opposes your own. The truth is there is no point in commenting back and I did, for a long time, even while I knew, completely and consciously it wouldn't amount to anything. So here's something to make your lives easier; don't comment against people, comment for people or for yourself. And something for the atheists specifically. One day the universe will just end and therefore nothing will ever matter. Ever.

Cancer detection is a multi-stage process. Once in a while cancer is found by chance but most of the time from screening. The final stage of cancer diagnosis depends on an Oncologist's(it is a branch of medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer) judgment. On the contrary, if it's speculated that you have cancer, the doctor may prescribe certain "cancer blood tests" or other "lab tests", for example, an investigation of your urine or a biopsy of a suspicious area where cancer is speculated. Read More: www.allin122.com/2018/10/cancer-detection-and-treatment.html

Who on earth thumbs down this? Let me guess...you don't like that he uses an iPhone?

microRNA expression pattern recognition and correlation with existing published literature in the cloud, this is indeed miroculus ;)

How do videos of Kardashians have millions of views but a video of early cancer detection only 50k. Man on man our societies priorities...

Is it me or is patent/copyright taking a U-turn here? :D