Liver tumors are typically treated with chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery (or some combination of the three)—all of which are either invasive or have side effects that can rival the disease itself. But now there's a noninvasive treatment available: histotripsy, the process of liquefying cancerous tumors with ultrasound waves, resulting in minimal pain for the patient and no damage to nontargeted tissue—meaning fewer side effects.
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Entangled Publishing
FOR FUELING THE ROMANTASY FRENZY
Homecourt For adding luxury to sustainable, nontoxic household products
CLEANING YOUR home is hardly a sexy undertaking. But when you’re obsessed with design, cleanliness, and things smelling good, it can be joyful.
TOP TEN
“I WOULDN'T WANT TO COME HERE, TO BE honest” is not the first tourism slogan that would occur to most marketers.
HistoSonics
FOR CHANNELING SOUND TO DESTROY LIVER TUMORS
Zero Foodprint For funding "collective regeneration"
EVERY DAY, Americans spend hundreds of millions of dollars on food, yet very little of that money directly changes how food is grown.
Iceye
FOR SEEING THE WORLD, EVEN THROUGH CLOUDS
Duolingo
For finding a common language
WNBA For posting up when it mattered
WHEN BASKETBALL STARS CAITLIN Clark, Angel Reese, and Cameron Brink rolled up to the Brooklyn Academy of Music last April for the 2024 WNBA draft, they signaled the arrival of a new generation of talent—and the league’s cultural ascendance.
Port of Portland
For creating a truly local airport
Crunchyroll For turning anime fandom into an ecosystem
BEING A FAN OF ANIME IN THE aughts meant you either had to know Japanese or rely on the kindness of internet strangers, who would up- load their own subtitled versions of popular series to video-hosting site Crunchyroll, which launched in 2006. In the nearly two decades since, anime has crossed from subculture into mainstream pop culture among Western audiences, with Crunchyroll leading the way.
