Cancer advance - Research pays off

COULD there be a better example of the smart economy in action than the invention of a device that will help in the fight against cancer?

Researchers at Cork’s Tyndall National Institute are working on a device that may be able to identify some cancers through an artificial sense of smell. This would be a wonderful breakthrough on so many fronts.

It would help in fighting cancer, it would generate considerable economic activity and, possibly most importantly of all, show how important it is to sustain research funding no matter how difficult that might seem.