Can we make a brain tumor visible under ultrasound? 🧠 🔉 Yes, using intravenous #gasvesicles! This can help guide brain surgery and monitor for tumor recurrence.
Congrats to Claire Rabut, George Daghlian and collaborators!
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Schematic explaining In vivo tracking of active transcription. Injection of gene therapy is followed by measurement of the transcripts with RNA sensors, which produce a synthetic serum marker called RMA.

qPCR can measure expression of virtually any gene... in homogenized tissues. Here, we show an "in-vivo qPCR" equivalent, where we measure a sequence-specific transcript with synthetic serum markers and enzyme-based signal amplification.
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What happens when you can take videos of acoustic proteins in 3D inside the body? 🧊 You can see things like the flow of CSF in the brain! 🧠
Congrats to Sunho Lee, co-senior author Claire Rabut, and colleagues on "Takoyaki" ultrasound. 🥟 #gasvesicles www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...