Understanding how the brain creates conscious experience remains one of science’s most difficult challenges. Brain scans and ...

But many scientists still believe that the scientific keys to the kingdom of consciousness are within reach. Lately, some are ...

As these systems evolve, I believe therapeutic ultrasound is poised to become medicine's next general-purpose platform.

New technologies are changing the way we live at a pace that borders on the miraculous. In particular, modern medicine stands as one of humanity’s most awe-inspiring achievements. Technologies like ...

This clinical trial will determine whether focused ultrasound can safely and effectively treat metastatic brain tumors when ...

Parkinson's disease is no longer viewed as a faraway neurological ailment buried in textbooks. More than 10 million people ...

CHAPEL HILL, NC – In a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine co-authored by Vibhor Krishna, MD, associate professor of neurosurgery at the UNC School of Medicine, researchers show ...

Researchers in the lab of Wynn Legon, the faculty director of the transcranial MR-guided focused ultrasound facilities at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC, demonstrate the use of ...

“Our well-designed functional ultrasound enables the sono-sensitized chemotherapy to be a precise tumor-specific treatment with good penetration performance,” said study co-author Zhu Guangyu from ...

The findings of a major international trial to test a high-tech, scalpel-free approach to treating movement problems caused by Parkinson’s disease have been published in the prestigious New England ...

Two new studies have found that using focused ultrasound to open up the blood-brain barrier generated a positive immune response in the brain and allowed for the admission of gene-editing technology.

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 ...