Yeah Shrek! Fabulous new idea: sonogenetics.
www.salk.edu/news-release...
www.salk.edu/news-release...
Salk Institute to lead ARPA-H project with up to $41.3M to advance sonogenetics as a noninvasive therapeutic - Salk Institute for Biological Studies
LA JOLLA—Salk Institute scientist Sreekanth Chalasani, PhD, has received an award of up to $41.3 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), an agency within the United Sta...
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April 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Yeah Shrek! Fabulous new idea: sonogenetics.
www.salk.edu/news-release...
www.salk.edu/news-release...
In the future, a non-invasive pacemaker that’s worn like a sticker on the chest could stimulate the heart using ultrasound. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/wearable-p...
Wearable pacemaker uses ultrasound to control heart rhythm – Physics World
Integrating sonogenetics with ultrasound technology, non-invasive pacemaker is designed to manage cardiac rhythm disorders
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July 2, 2026 at 8:22 AM
In the future, a non-invasive pacemaker that’s worn like a sticker on the chest could stimulate the heart using ultrasound. 🧪⚛️ physicsworld.com/a/wearable-p...
Gene Therapy and Sound Waves Team up to Steady Failing Hearts
Gene Therapy and Sound Waves Team up to Steady Failing Hearts
A gene therapy trick called sonogenetics is the key
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June 10, 2026 at 12:01 PM
Gene Therapy and Sound Waves Team up to Steady Failing Hearts
The annual spring meeting of the German Physical Society #DPG2026 took place this year at beautiful Dresden and we organized a biological physics focus session on ultrasound and #sonogenetics. Peter Yingxiao Wang and Raphael Wittkowski gave impressive overview talks on what this field can do 👍🙏
March 13, 2026 at 5:39 AM
The annual spring meeting of the German Physical Society #DPG2026 took place this year at beautiful Dresden and we organized a biological physics focus session on ultrasound and #sonogenetics. Peter Yingxiao Wang and Raphael Wittkowski gave impressive overview talks on what this field can do 👍🙏
What do sonogenetics and magnetogenetics look like?
November 19, 2024 at 3:23 PM
What do sonogenetics and magnetogenetics look like?
🧪 Sonogenetics = gene therapy + ultrasound.
I interviewed @logantcollins.bsky.social on the nuances of this technique.
Merge Labs may be first to try.
Will it work?
Let’s see what emerges from Merge.
🧠 Neurotech Reports article link in comments.
#neurotech #neuroscience
I interviewed @logantcollins.bsky.social on the nuances of this technique.
Merge Labs may be first to try.
Will it work?
Let’s see what emerges from Merge.
🧠 Neurotech Reports article link in comments.
#neurotech #neuroscience
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🧪 Sonogenetics = gene therapy + ultrasound.
I interviewed @logantcollins.bsky.social on the nuances of this technique.
Merge Labs may be first to try.
Will it work?
Let’s see what emerges from Merge.
🧠 Neurotech Reports article link in comments.
#neurotech #neuroscience
I interviewed @logantcollins.bsky.social on the nuances of this technique.
Merge Labs may be first to try.
Will it work?
Let’s see what emerges from Merge.
🧠 Neurotech Reports article link in comments.
#neurotech #neuroscience
Salk scientist Shrek Chalasani has been awarded up to $41.3M from ARPA-H to advance sonogenetics—using ultrasound to precisely control cells in the body.
The goal: potential noninvasive treatments for conditions like peripheral neuropathies.
Learn more: www.salk.edu/news-release...
The goal: potential noninvasive treatments for conditions like peripheral neuropathies.
Learn more: www.salk.edu/news-release...
April 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Salk scientist Shrek Chalasani has been awarded up to $41.3M from ARPA-H to advance sonogenetics—using ultrasound to precisely control cells in the body.
The goal: potential noninvasive treatments for conditions like peripheral neuropathies.
Learn more: www.salk.edu/news-release...
The goal: potential noninvasive treatments for conditions like peripheral neuropathies.
Learn more: www.salk.edu/news-release...
If these goons were serious about animal welfare they’d be dumping billions into emerging noninvasive methods like functional ultrasound imaging, better DREADDs, maybe sonogenetics or magnetogenetics. But what they actually want is an excuse to axe half of our science to fund more bombs and cops
July 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If these goons were serious about animal welfare they’d be dumping billions into emerging noninvasive methods like functional ultrasound imaging, better DREADDs, maybe sonogenetics or magnetogenetics. But what they actually want is an excuse to axe half of our science to fund more bombs and cops
🧠 Ultrasound isn’t just for images. Sonogenetics and other promising technologies let researchers use focused sound waves to control genes and entire cells deep in the tissues of living animals, without surgery. #WorldBrainDay
✍️ Bob Holmes: knowmag.org/4vCuHwQ
✍️ Bob Holmes: knowmag.org/4vCuHwQ
Sounding out the brain
Ultrasound isn’t just for images. Sonogenetics and other promising technologies let researchers use focused sound waves to control genes and entire cells deep in the tissues of living animals,…
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July 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
🧠 Ultrasound isn’t just for images. Sonogenetics and other promising technologies let researchers use focused sound waves to control genes and entire cells deep in the tissues of living animals, without surgery. #WorldBrainDay
✍️ Bob Holmes: knowmag.org/4vCuHwQ
✍️ Bob Holmes: knowmag.org/4vCuHwQ
🧪 This Neurotech Reports article on sonogenetics and Merge Labs is free to read: www.neurotechreports.com/pages/sonoge...
#neurotech #neuroscience
#neurotech #neuroscience
Merge Labs, Sam Altman, genetic targeting, ultrasound systems, Open AI, mechanosensitive channels
www.neurotechreports.com
October 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
🧪 This Neurotech Reports article on sonogenetics and Merge Labs is free to read: www.neurotechreports.com/pages/sonoge...
#neurotech #neuroscience
#neurotech #neuroscience
This review on #sonogenetics discusses the properties of ultrasound waves, ultrasound-sensitive proteins used in sonogenetics, and its potential in managing conditions like #NeurologicalDisorders, #cancer, & ophthalmic diseases, & in #StemCellTherapy. #medsky
#OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.co...
#OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.co...
April 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
This review on #sonogenetics discusses the properties of ultrasound waves, ultrasound-sensitive proteins used in sonogenetics, and its potential in managing conditions like #NeurologicalDisorders, #cancer, & ophthalmic diseases, & in #StemCellTherapy. #medsky
#OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.co...
#OpenAccess: www.sciencedirect.co...
SONOGENETICS!
Sonogenetics is an emerging neuromodulation technique that uses harness low-intensity ultrasound to remotly activate genetically targeted neurons."
Yeah! We r going to have to have a discussion a/b the meaning of HARMLESS & REMOTELY ACTIVATE & GENETICALLY TARGETED!
Also emerging?
Sonogenetics is an emerging neuromodulation technique that uses harness low-intensity ultrasound to remotly activate genetically targeted neurons."
Yeah! We r going to have to have a discussion a/b the meaning of HARMLESS & REMOTELY ACTIVATE & GENETICALLY TARGETED!
Also emerging?
July 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
SONOGENETICS!
Sonogenetics is an emerging neuromodulation technique that uses harness low-intensity ultrasound to remotly activate genetically targeted neurons."
Yeah! We r going to have to have a discussion a/b the meaning of HARMLESS & REMOTELY ACTIVATE & GENETICALLY TARGETED!
Also emerging?
Sonogenetics is an emerging neuromodulation technique that uses harness low-intensity ultrasound to remotly activate genetically targeted neurons."
Yeah! We r going to have to have a discussion a/b the meaning of HARMLESS & REMOTELY ACTIVATE & GENETICALLY TARGETED!
Also emerging?
ARPA-H recently announced funding support for two new focused ultrasound projects: one led by Attune Neuro to advance neuromodulation for chronic pain and depression, and another led by the Salk Institute to accelerate sonogenetics toward human clinical trials.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/J2s950Zae8t
Learn more: https://ow.ly/J2s950Zae8t
ARPA-H Supports Focused Ultrasound Projects in Sonogenetics and Behavioral Health - Focused Ultrasound Foundation
Researchers will use the funding to advance low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation and sonogenetics.
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June 11, 2026 at 2:20 PM
ARPA-H recently announced funding support for two new focused ultrasound projects: one led by Attune Neuro to advance neuromodulation for chronic pain and depression, and another led by the Salk Institute to accelerate sonogenetics toward human clinical trials.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/J2s950Zae8t
Learn more: https://ow.ly/J2s950Zae8t
St. Boniface Hospital Research is joining a $41.3M international collaboration to advance sonogenetics!
Dr. Paul Fernyhough is leading a key part of this ARPA-H project to develop noninvasive nerve repair therapies.
www.sbrc.ca/2026/04/st-b...
#MedicalInnovation #Sonogenetics #NerveRepair
Dr. Paul Fernyhough is leading a key part of this ARPA-H project to develop noninvasive nerve repair therapies.
www.sbrc.ca/2026/04/st-b...
#MedicalInnovation #Sonogenetics #NerveRepair
St. Boniface Hospital Research joins $41.3M ARPA-H project to advance sonogenetics
St. Boniface Hospital Research is proud to announce its role in a groundbreaking international collaboration led by the Salk Institute. Supported by an award of up to $41.3 million from the Advance…
www.sbrc.ca
April 8, 2026 at 6:50 PM
St. Boniface Hospital Research is joining a $41.3M international collaboration to advance sonogenetics!
Dr. Paul Fernyhough is leading a key part of this ARPA-H project to develop noninvasive nerve repair therapies.
www.sbrc.ca/2026/04/st-b...
#MedicalInnovation #Sonogenetics #NerveRepair
Dr. Paul Fernyhough is leading a key part of this ARPA-H project to develop noninvasive nerve repair therapies.
www.sbrc.ca/2026/04/st-b...
#MedicalInnovation #Sonogenetics #NerveRepair
To make human brains more amenable to computer chip implants researchers will try using gene therapy to sensitize neurons with ultrasounds in an approach called sonogenetics.
www.extremetech.com/science/gene...
www.extremetech.com/science/gene...
Gene Therapy Could Let Future Implants Control the Brain Via Ultrasound
One of Sam Altman’s pet projects aims to engineer the brain to better work with brain-computer interface implants.
www.extremetech.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
To make human brains more amenable to computer chip implants researchers will try using gene therapy to sensitize neurons with ultrasounds in an approach called sonogenetics.
www.extremetech.com/science/gene...
www.extremetech.com/science/gene...
Vision restoration: From prostheses to genetic-based brain-machine interfaces www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... "Classically, visual prostheses were made of electrode arrays", in Handbook of Clinical Neurology, vol. 218, 2026, pp. 387-400; #sonogenetics #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Vision restoration: From prostheses to genetic-based brain–machine interfaces
Visual restoration is the major challenge for brain–machine interfaces because vision requires perception of images containing a high number of pixels…
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May 31, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Vision restoration: From prostheses to genetic-based brain-machine interfaces www.sciencedirect.com/science/chap... "Classically, visual prostheses were made of electrode arrays", in Handbook of Clinical Neurology, vol. 218, 2026, pp. 387-400; #sonogenetics #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
The #CTGCT is proud to announce that Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca Benčina has received an #ARIS project grant for Project Calcium-switch!
We’re rethinking #CAR-T therapy by using #sonogenetics to "wake up" T cells exactly when and where they’re needed.
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#Immunotherapy
We’re rethinking #CAR-T therapy by using #sonogenetics to "wake up" T cells exactly when and where they’re needed.
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#Immunotherapy
New Project Grant Received: Sonogenetics as a central modulator of CAR-T function and lineage commitment - CTGCT
As part of our efforts towards the sustainability of the CTGCT and with the goal in mind to develop new gene and cell therapies for cancer and rare diseases, our team members are applying to several g...
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April 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
The #CTGCT is proud to announce that Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mojca Benčina has received an #ARIS project grant for Project Calcium-switch!
We’re rethinking #CAR-T therapy by using #sonogenetics to "wake up" T cells exactly when and where they’re needed.
ctgct.si/en/objave/ca...
#Immunotherapy
We’re rethinking #CAR-T therapy by using #sonogenetics to "wake up" T cells exactly when and where they’re needed.
ctgct.si/en/objave/ca...
#Immunotherapy
Sam Altman just got into BCI by backing Merge Labs 🧠
- Valued at $850M after a $250M raise
- Developing high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces
- Their bet: focused ultrasound + neuronal gene editing (sonogenetics)
#neuroskyence #neuropapers #openAI #BCI
- Valued at $850M after a $250M raise
- Developing high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces
- Their bet: focused ultrasound + neuronal gene editing (sonogenetics)
#neuroskyence #neuropapers #openAI #BCI
Sam Altman’s new startup wants to merge machines and humans
Merge Labs is a new Neuralink rival developing brain-computer interfaces.
www.theverge.com
August 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Sam Altman just got into BCI by backing Merge Labs 🧠
- Valued at $850M after a $250M raise
- Developing high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces
- Their bet: focused ultrasound + neuronal gene editing (sonogenetics)
#neuroskyence #neuropapers #openAI #BCI
- Valued at $850M after a $250M raise
- Developing high-performance, non-invasive brain-computer interfaces
- Their bet: focused ultrasound + neuronal gene editing (sonogenetics)
#neuroskyence #neuropapers #openAI #BCI
Could future pacemakers be worn instead of implanted?
Researchers at MIT developed an ultrasound-powered pacemaker patch that regulated heart rhythm in animal studies, combining wearable technology, sonogenetics and cardiac care.
#healthcare
Researchers at MIT developed an ultrasound-powered pacemaker patch that regulated heart rhythm in animal studies, combining wearable technology, sonogenetics and cardiac care.
#healthcare
New pacemaker controls the heart using sound waves | ICT&health
MIT-researchers have developed an innovative, non-invasive pacemaker that stimulates the heart using ultrasound.
www.icthealth.org
June 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Could future pacemakers be worn instead of implanted?
Researchers at MIT developed an ultrasound-powered pacemaker patch that regulated heart rhythm in animal studies, combining wearable technology, sonogenetics and cardiac care.
#healthcare
Researchers at MIT developed an ultrasound-powered pacemaker patch that regulated heart rhythm in animal studies, combining wearable technology, sonogenetics and cardiac care.
#healthcare
A comprehensive overview of current research on ultrasound-stimulated neuromodulation, emphasizing its potential as a treatment modality for various nerve injuries.🧠🧪
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Potential of ultrasound stimulation and sonogenetics in... : Neural Regeneration Research
lated neuromodulation, emphasizing its potential as a treatment modality for various nerve injuries. By examining of the efficacy of different types of ultrasound stimulation in modulating peripheral ...
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December 20, 2024 at 6:48 PM
A comprehensive overview of current research on ultrasound-stimulated neuromodulation, emphasizing its potential as a treatment modality for various nerve injuries.🧠🧪
journals.lww.com/nrronline/ab...
journals.lww.com/nrronline/ab...
Check our break down of the review about #sonogetics where our colleagues Filip Ivanovski et al explain key concepts and go over possible applications of this innovative use of ultrasound.
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#CTGCT #Research #Review
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#CTGCT #Research #Review
How Ultrasound Can Control Cells, the Future of Medicine? - CTGCT
Members of our team have already published work on sonogenetics (check our article breaking down that research here). We think this could have interesting applications in the future, since it overcome...
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May 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Check our break down of the review about #sonogetics where our colleagues Filip Ivanovski et al explain key concepts and go over possible applications of this innovative use of ultrasound.
ctgct.si/en/objave/ho...
#CTGCT #Research #Review
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#CTGCT #Research #Review
