A new technique using ultrasound waves to activate light-emitting nanoparticles could be used to manipulate cell signals or facilitate light-based medical treatments in the future.
Years ago, I read a research news item about having looked at gut-cells, after an ultrasound, & finding that they were having an abnormally elevated death-rate.
Anybody who understands that if that holds, if ultrasound stresses cells in an unnatural way which is actually-significant, even only slightly, that having all babies ultrasounded might be a stupid idea?
anybody who knows some of the history of the X-Ray, knows that Marie Curie’s corpse is kept in a lead coffin, because it’s too radioactive,
& that medical-X-rays NOW are drasticlly lower-energy than what they were in the 1900’s ( new machines, anyways ).
I expect the same to be true of ultrasound machines: less energy, for the same view…
The point of this, though, is that the ONLY study I know-of which looked at whether cell-death is increased by ultrasound, discovered that yes, it is, & … nobody cared??
Years ago, I read a research news item about having looked at gut-cells, after an ultrasound, & finding that they were having an abnormally elevated death-rate.
Anybody who understands that if that holds, if ultrasound stresses cells in an unnatural way which is actually-significant, even only slightly, that having all babies ultrasounded might be a stupid idea?
anybody who knows some of the history of the X-Ray, knows that Marie Curie’s corpse is kept in a lead coffin, because it’s too radioactive,
& that medical-X-rays NOW are drasticlly lower-energy than what they were in the 1900’s ( new machines, anyways ).
I expect the same to be true of ultrasound machines: less energy, for the same view…
The point of this, though, is that the ONLY study I know-of which looked at whether cell-death is increased by ultrasound, discovered that yes, it is, & … nobody cared??
That’s the wrong response.
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