Five Minutes to Yes, Two Hours to Clarity: How Ultra-Fast Diagnostics Are Re-Drawing Medicine’s Critical Pathways

Five Minutes to Yes, Two Hours to Clarity: How Ultra-Fast Diagnostics Are Re-Drawing Medicine’s Critical Pathways

On a Tuesday morning in Nottingham, surgeons hovered over a glioblastoma no bigger than a walnut while a pocket-sized sequencer in the corner of the OR streamed genetic reads fast enough to guide the resection before the patient even left the table. Only 120 minutes later, the device declared the tumor an IDH-wild-type glioblastoma—a death sentence traditionally confirmed six weeks post-op. Across the Atlantic that same day, a college sophomore …