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Treating Alzheimer’s with Sound Waves and Bubbles

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Release Date: 03/11/2022

You probably know ultrasound as the thing that lets expecting parents see their baby in the womb–but what if this commonplace technology held the key to treating Alzheimer’s disease? In this episode, we sit down with Columbia Professor of Biomedical Engineering Elisa Konofagou to talk about her team’s experimental new treatment for Alzheimer’s and how she found innovation in a hundred year old technology.