Improved ultrasound capabilities with nanoscale imaging agents made by microbes
Monday, March 17, 2014 - 08:01
in Biology & Nature
Dr. Mikhail Shapiro was interested in developing nanoscale imaging agents for ultrasound to enable non-invasive imaging of a much broader range of biological and biomedical events in the body. Turning to nature for inspiration, he and his colleagues at Caltech and UC Berkeley, successfully created the first ultrasound imaging agent based on genetically encoded gas-containing structures.