Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized and tested protein-polymer microbubbles for use in medical ultrasound imaging of internal organs. Administered intravenously, the ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ultrasound contrast agents show promise for detecting and evaluating uterine disorders and prostate cancers, scientists reported today at the annual Advances in Contrast ...

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ultrasound experts today urged the health care community to work to expand utilization of ultrasound contrast agents (UCAs) in order to offer patients broader access to ...

A research team at POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology) has investigated kidney diseases using ultrafast ultrasound that captures 1,000 images in just one second. The research team ...

A new contrast agent could allow real-time monitoring of pH changes in the body using an ultrasound scanner (ACS Sens. 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acssensors.0c00245). This expansion of the use of ultrasound ...

One of the reasons cardiovascular disease kills 610,000 Americans each year is that it’s hard to see it coming before it’s too late. By the time someone is experiencing chest pain, irreversible damage ...

The USphere Series of microbubble contrast agents has been carefully designed for preclinical imaging, operating efficiently at frequencies ranging from 1 to 40 MHz. Their small size distribution (1.1 ...

Primary liver cancer is the third cause of cancer death worldwide with 906,000 new cases and 830,000 deaths. Of these, 75-85% of patients are hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), while the remaining 15-25% ...

A touch of the button is all it takes to improve the resolution of ultrasound images fivefold. This is down to bubbles floating in the bloodstream and a clever algorithm. To the trained eyes of a ...

Implication of DYRK1B kinase in dormant glioblastoma cancers and utilization of DYRK1B inhibitors as a novel therapeutic strategy for glioblastoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2019 ASCO ...

For nonviral transfection, the naked DNA can be delivered into cells or tissues either by chemical carriers such as liposome and cationic polymers or by physical/mechanical means exemplified by ...