ultrasound

In a small clinical study, focusing ultrasound beams on tumors in patients’ brains helped open the blood-brain barrier to facilitate drug delivery.

Two out of three people who received noninvasive ultrasound appear to have gained some level of consciousness, according to preliminary trial results.

Many plants reflect ultrasonic waves, thereby attracting the pollinators, but one cactus takes a different approach.

A newly developed underwater ultrasound reveals a fetal shark swimming between the two uteri of its mother.

Scuba diving alongside the fish, scientists used ultrasound equipment to image females’ reproductive organs.

A Phase 1 clinical trial shows the noninvasive technique is safe and could aid in the delivery treatments to the brain.

Researchers use a combination of ultrasound waves, genetic engineering, and synthetic drugs to switch specific neurons on and off in mice.

Researchers have been using ultrasound to control brain activity, but studies in mice and guinea pigs show it also stimulates the auditory system, presenting a confounder for direct neural stimulation.

To treat neurological disease, researchers develop techniques to bypass or trick the guardian of the central nervous system.

The blood-brain barrier is a collection of specialized cells and proteins that control the movement of molecules from the blood to the central nervous system.

Ultrasound-stimulated microbubbles enable gene delivery to fix fractures.

The new technique helped pig tibias heal in just eight weeks.

A study provides stronger evidence for the causal link between Zika infection and microcephaly, and warns of a host of other birth defects associated with the virus.

Researchers present sonogenetics, a technique to activate select Caenorhabditis elegans neurons with ultrasound waves.

Mouse mothers emit ultrasound vocalizations and odor cues to stimulate otherwise uninterested fathers to provide parental care to their pups.

Orbiting ultrasound machines are being used to diagnose and treat astronauts' kidney stones.

New, minimally invasive techniques for seeing deep inside living brains