Imagine a world where fighting cancer doesn’t involve knives, radiation, or chemo’s nasty side effects—instead, doctors just crank up the bass and blast tumors with sound waves until they literally pop like overinflated balloons. That’s histotripsy, the wild tech from HistoSonics that’s turning pancreatic cancer—the sneaky, deadly kind with a lousy 13% survival rate—into a liquified mess using controlled bubbles. What started as a grad student’s “oops, I broke the machine” moment has evolved into a noninvasive superpower, backed by Jeff Bezos’ billions, that could make surgeons trade scalpels for speakers.
Ultrasound Treatment Takes on Cancer’s Toughest Tumors
