Graduate student Lu Xu wears a device designed by engineers, at Washington University in St. Louis, that targets ultrasound waves to precise spots in the brain. Such targeting is the first step in a ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...

Brain biopsies may be a quick, safe, and promising way of determining which patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) are most likely to benefit from aggressive treatment, early research ...

For decades, diagnosis of brain cancer has been medicine’s most difficult and hazardous challenge. Simple imaging such as MRI scans may reveal a suspicious-looking lesion, but the only sure way to ...

Malignant brain cancer is aggressive, and biopsies are invasive and painful, but now, some doctors have developed a new method of confirming a diagnosis: a liquid biopsy. Brain cancer’s survival rate ...

Dr. Lee Warren, a neurosurgeon at Great Plains Health Brain & Spine, recently led the first image-guided stereotactic brain biopsy in Great Plains Health’s history. Unique technology and innovative ...

The first-of-its-kind 3D-printed surgical biopsy capsule was developed by neurosurgeons and a graduate student based at ...

CHICAGO, Sept. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Brain Tumor Funders' Collaborative (BTFC) today announced $1 million in grant funding to support two multi-institutional research teams focused on ...

Obtaining prefrontal cortex biopsies during deep brain stimulation (DBS) surgery in living patients does not increase the risk of adverse events or cognitive decline compared to standard DBS ...