We were inspired by the work of breast cancer surgeon Stuart Robertson at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW) NHS Trust. We got great funding and support from the National Nuclear Laboratory, EPSRC, STFC, Innovate UK and Dstl. We are taking this further with www.qbiomed.org

…and our paper is here journals.aps.org/prapplied/ab...
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It's great to work on this at the University of Warwick. We used a beautiful diamond made by Matthew Markham and Andrew Edmonds at Element Six

We invited 16 women and 16 men. We were unlucky that so many women had prior commitments

We’re working on this!

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This work was funded by the STFC and the EPSRC including the new Q-BIOMED Quantum Technology Hub www.qbiomed.org

We thank the NHS, in particular Stuart Robertson and Joseph Hardwicke at the University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW). Alex's PhD is funded by the United Kingdom National Nuclear Laboratory, and we're grateful to Douglas Offin there for useful discussions

We can detect the magnetic tracer fluid used in breast cancer surgery as you can see in our preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2504.05884

This is great work from first-author Alex Newman, with a beautiful diamond from Matthew Markham and Andrew Edmonds at Element Six

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…and work where our collaborators have put these into living cells:
www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

This builds on our measurements of the longest spin coherence times in nanodiamonds:
doi.org/10.1103/Phys...

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