Topic
Cancer Bioengineering
Engineering approaches to understanding and treating cancer.
Episodes2
- EP 66
Destroying Tumors With Sound: Histotripsy with Dr. Zhen Xu
Dr. Zhen Xu explains how an unexpected ultrasound result became histotripsy, from bubble physics to liver-tumor treatment and the questions still ahead.
- EP 6
New Supernova, Virus+Bacteria vs Cancer, Electron Spin, Bee Superfood
Supernova, cancer microbes, spintronics, and bee superfood.
Chapters from these episodes14
- EP 66 · 0:50A PhD student and a heart problem
- EP 66 · 3:42Heat vs. sound: how histotripsy works
- EP 66 · 7:06Gas pockets, and why not the lungs
- EP 66 · 9:38"Don't read any papers": Yellow Pages and pig hearts
- EP 66 · 12:29Too loud: rethinking the ultrasound pulse
- EP 66 · 14:56"Almost like smoke": the 2002 discovery
- EP 66 · 18:14Building the equipment, and the Edison system
- EP 66 · 23:50The physics: pressure waves, bubbles and cells
- EP 66 · 28:47Ten years to understand it
- EP 66 · 35:58The surprise: an immune response
- EP 66 · 38:16Why liver cancer, and 9 of 11 rats
- EP 66 · 52:27Recovery and the 20-mile-run anecdote