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As these systems evolve, I believe therapeutic ultrasound is poised to become medicine's next general-purpose platform.
Focused ultrasound therapy, which focuses beams of ultrasound energy precisely into the body, is a procedure that alleviated my Parkinson’s disease-associated tremors and gave me and my family our ...
A new kind of cancer gene therapy can be remotely activated at a specific part of the body. The team developed a version of CRISPR that responds to ultrasound, and demonstrated how it can be used to ...
Ultrasound, the decades-old technology known for giving early glimpses of unborn babies, could hold a key to a problem that has long challenged drug developers: getting medicines to hard-to-reach ...
The clinical trial is expected to enroll up to 40 patients in two stages: an initial open-label pilot (10 patients) followed ...
Sonodynamic therapy uses ultrasound in combination with drugs to release harmful reactive oxygen species (ROS) at the site of a tumor. However, the treatment isn't very effective because cancer cells ...
Piezoelectric nanoparticles deployed inside immune cells and stimulated remotely by ultrasound can trigger the body's disease ...
A project at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) has used ultrasound to enhance the effects of photothermal therapy (PTT). Published in Advanced Optical Methods ...