by | Feb 24, 2020 | Mostafa, Atahar, Zhu, Quing
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Prof. Quing Zhu and colleagues have pioneered a compact, low-cost ultrasound-guided optical tomography system designed to differentiate between benign and malignant breast lesions and reduce the need for costly and invasive biopsies. This technology enables fast, robust imag…
by | Feb 14, 2020 | Achilefu, Samuel
— Description: Calcium Carbonate nanoparticles for normalizing tumor microenvironment
Publication: Som A, Raliya R, Tian L, Akers W, Ippolito JE, Singamaneni S, Biswas P, Achilefu S. Monodispersed calcium carbonate nanoparticles modulate local pH and inhibit tumor growth in vivo. Nanoscale. 2016 Jul …
by | Nov 14, 2019 | Biswas, Pratim, Raliya, Ramesh
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Engineers in Prof. Pratim Biswas’ laboratory have developed a nanoparticle fertilizer that increases phosphorus uptake and plant yield while reducing environmental damage and strain on natural resources.
Increasing global food demand has prompted the large-scale use o…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Chen, Hong, Williamson, Jeffrey, Yang, Yaoheng "Mack"
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Researchers in Prof. Hong Chen’s laboratory have developed a safe, convenient monitoring technique to precisely deliver drugs to the brain by integrating ultrasound imaging with ultrasound therapy (focused ultrasound-blood-brain-barrier delivery, “FUS-BBBD”…
by | Oct 22, 2019 | Li, Lei, Wang, Lihong, Yao, Junjie
— The invention is a novel photoacoustic imaging technique, termed reversibly switchable photoacoustic tomography (RS-PAT). It exhibits a large penetration depth, a high detection sensitivity, and a spatial super-resolution. The most important feature of this technique is that it significantly incre…