The past several decades have witnessed great progress in “smart drug delivery”, an
advance technology that can deliver genes or drugs into specific locations of patients' body …

Sonoporation, or the use of ultrasound in the presence of cavitation nuclei to induce plasma
membrane perforation, is well considered as an emerging physical approach to facilitate the …

Ultrasound-driven microbubbles can trigger reversible membrane perforation
(sonoporation), open interendothelial junctions and stimulate endocytosis, thereby providing …

Due to the high compressibility of the gas core compared with the surrounding liquid
medium, microbubbles are highly responsive to ultrasound excitation and exhibit robust …

The inherently toxic nature of chemotherapy drugs is essential for them to kill cancer cells
but is also the source of the detrimental side effects experienced by patients. One strategy to …

In this article, membrane perforation of endothelial cells with attached microbubbles caused
by exposure to single-shot short pulsed ultrasound is described, and the mechanisms of …

Ultrasound application in the presence of microbubbles is a promising strategy for
intracellular drug and gene delivery, but it may also trigger other cellular responses. This …

Acoustically triggered microcannons, capable of loading and firing nanobullets (Nbs), are
presented as powerful microballistic tools. Hollow conically shaped microcannon structures …

We report here the sonoporation of HL60 (human promyelocytic leukemia) suspension cells
in a microfluidic confinement using a single laser-induced cavitation bubble. Cavitation …

Lipid-coated microbubbles are widely used as an ultrasound contrast agent, as well as drug
delivery carriers. However, the two main limitations in ultrasound diagnosis and drug …