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The 700kHz, 260-element histotripsy ultrasound array transducer used in Prof. Xu’s lab.  (Marcin Szczepanski, Michigan Engineering)
USA: Cancer Treatment

Tumors Can Now be Eliminated with Sound

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a noninvasive sound technology which has the potential to partially destroy liver tumors in rats which leads to destroying the remaining tumor with the help of the immune system. This also enables to stop the cancer cells from spreading further. The study could lead to enhanced cancer outcomes in humans.

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A translucent fruit fly larvae glows where a green fluorescent protein (GFP) is being expressed by codons that are rare in the fly genome. Only two tissues, the brain (left) and testis (right) are capable of expressing this version of GFP. (Source: Fox Lab, Duke)
USA: Genetics

What Fruit Flies Can Tell us about the Code of Life

A new examination of the way different tissues read information from genes has discovered that the brain and testes appear to be extraordinarily open to the use of many different kinds of code to produce a given protein. The researchers say the use of rare pieces of code may be another layer of control in the genome that could be essential to fertility and evolutionary innovation.

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