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An Ultrasound Implant Designed to Push Brain Drugs Deeper

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a flexible implant called LUCID. It uses ultrasound to help delivered drugs spread further through the brain. The team hopes the device could be placed in the brain during surgery. There, it would release medicine over time. This could help keep glioblastoma, a fast-growing brain cancer, from returning. The study…

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