When these bacteria are placed inside an animal, an
ultrasound detector can pick up those signals and
reveal the microbes» location, much like sonar waves bouncing off ships at sea, explains
study coauthor Mikhail Shapiro, a chemical engineer at Caltech.
«A high - resolution
ultrasound revealed harmonized pumping where iPS cells were introduced to the previously damaged heart tissue,» says Satsuki Yamada, M.D., Ph.D., first author of the
study.