World first: Nir Lipsman and colleagues have visually demonstrated that a cancer therapy can cross the blood–brain barrier. (Courtesy: Kevin Van Paassen, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre) For the ...

FUS utilizes multiple beams of relatively low-frequency ultrasound (generally within 0.2–3 MHz, depending on the application ...

Delivering light to a tumor buried centimeters inside the body has always required threading a fiber-optic cable through ...

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A multicenter clinical study in Austria has shown that a new, highly precise ultrasound approach can successfully target and treat early prostate cancer while preserving patients' quality of life.

Sonire Therapeutics raised $18 million in a Series A financing round to support its high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Virginia have performed the first focused ultrasound treatments in the United States for dyskinesia associated with Parkinson's disease.

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 ...

BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 4, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Acoustiic Inc. has received a research funding agreement from the Focused Ultrasound Foundation (FUS) to adapt their WaveMatrix™ platform to explore the ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece discusses advances in Alzheimer’s therapy. In 1999, I defined regenerative medicine as the collection of ...

Substance use disorder afflicts many Americans — in 2021, 46.3 million people in the United States age 12 or older were addicted to alcohol or drugs such as opioids and stimulants. Now scientists are ...