Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

Piezoelectric nanoparticles deployed inside immune cells and stimulated remotely by ultrasound can trigger the body's disease ...

Researchers have shown how ultrasound energy can briefly "open a door" in the protective outer membranes of living cells to allow entry of drugs and other therapeutic molecules – and how the cells ...

Chemotherapy treatments produce strong side effects. A new agent that accumulates in the tumor tissue and is activated there by ultrasound waves does not have this problem. Platinum complexes are ...

Bioengineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a cancer immunotherapy that pairs ultrasound with cancer-killing immune cells to destroy malignant tumors while sparing normal ...

When medicines go to the wrong places in the body, the results can be rough. Antidepressants may cause feelings of detachment, chemotherapy can harm healthy tissues, and painkillers often bring nausea ...

MR-guided focused ultrasound is a non-invasive procedure that reduces hand tremor symptoms. A focused ultrasound may be life-changing if you have essential tremor or tremor-dominant Parkinson’s ...