Sound check

October 12, 2025

Sound check: This is incredible. A noisy experiment gone right led to histotripsy, a cancer treatment that uses ultrasound to blast tumors without surgery. FDA-approved for liver cancer, it’s noninvasive, fast and, get this, 95% effective in trials so far. Patients usually go home the same day. The inventor discovered it trying to quiet her lab. Volume down, breakthrough up.