UChicago Medicine is using a new technology to destroy liver tumors without radiation, chemotherapy or even cutting the skin. Called histotripsy, it destroys tumors using sound waves. Amber Sikes was ...

Sound waves at frequencies above the threshold for human hearing are routinely used in medical care. Also known as ultrasound ...

Ultrasound has long been used for helping doctors see inside the body, but focused high frequency sound waves are offering ...

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Sound waves have been part of science and medicine for decades, but the technologies have always relied on low frequencies. Now researchers have revealed how high frequency sound waves could ...

WASHINGTON, D.C., October 30, 2014 – Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a way to use sound to create cellular scaffolding for tissue engineering, a unique approach that could ...

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