Hong Chen, an associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, and a multidisciplinary team induced a torpor-like state in mice by using ultrasound to stimulate the hypothalamus preoptic ...

Scientists have found a way to achieve higher levels of concentration when practicing mindfulness through applying non-invasive ultrasound technology to the brain.

image: Hong Chen's team used ultrasound to safely, noninvasively induce a torpor-like state in mice, rats view more . Credit: Image courtesy Chen laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis ...

Researchers are investigating the potential of a painless, needle-free vaccine delivery by ultrasound. The method uses cavitation, which is the formation and popping of bubbles in response to a ...

By pelting rodents’ heads with ultrasound pulses – a procedure that is not as traumatic as it sounds, we promise – scientists from Washington University in St. Louis have managed to induce a ...

Scientists have boosted the motility of slow sperm by blasting the cells with 40-MHz ultrasound waves to induce movement. Capturing the technique's impact on individual sperm cells, the study ...

A challenge of therapeutics in Alzheimer’s disease has been restriction by the blood–brain barrier of the delivery of therapeutic agents to brain tissue. 1 Low-intensity focused ultrasound ...

Ultrasound technology is used in many ways. Addiction is the next frontier. The use of the high-frequency sound waves is also being adapted to treat Alzheimer’s disease, ...