Ultrasound therapy is emerging as a potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. It uses ultrasound to open the blood-brain barrier, which can help with drug delivery and may also reduce plaques from ...

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 ...

As areas of uncontrolled cell growth, cancerous growth form a major problem for a multi-celled organism like us humans. Thus before they can begin to affect our long-term prospects of a continued ...

In Esener’s group, Schutt Ibsen first approached interventions to improve cancer therapy through nanomedicine. Esener’s team sought to use ultrasound to manipulate nanosized, gas-filled bubbles that ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a new type of nanoparticle designed to improve the effectiveness and safety of ultrasound-based cancer therapies, while also helping to ...