{"id":241640,"date":"2026-07-27T16:10:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/low-frequency-ultrasound-attacks-oral-cancer-cells"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:10:12","slug":"low-frequency-ultrasound-attacks-oral-cancer-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/07\/low-frequency-ultrasound-attacks-oral-cancer-cells","title":{"rendered":"Low-Frequency Ultrasound Attacks Oral Cancer Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/low-frequency-ultrasound-attacks-oral-cancer-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When <a href=\"https:\/\/be.iisc.ac.in\/ajay-tijore\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ajay Tijore<\/a> was a postdoctoral researcher in mechanobiologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbi.nus.edu.sg\/michael-sheetz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Sheetz<\/a>\u2019s lab at the National University of Singapore, he and his team studied how mechanical strain affected cancer cells. A few years ago, the researchers found that low-frequency ultrasound waves triggered mechanical stress that killed several invasive cancer cell types.<sup>1<\/sup> \u201cThat was kind of a big revelation\u2026<a> Eureka moment,\u201d said Tijore.<\/p>\n<p>When he started his own lab at the Indian Institute of Science in 2021, Tijore hoped to contribute to Indian society. With India accounting for one-third of the oral cancer cases worldwide, Tijore sought to investigate whether low-frequency ultrasound could also target oral cancer cells.<sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Now, Tijore and his team found that patient-derived oral cancer cells are susceptible to low-frequency ultrasound due to their distinct biomechanical properties compared to healthy cells.<sup>3<\/sup> The team\u2019s findings, published in <em>Materials Today Bio<\/em>, highlight the potential of the non-invasive approach in oral cancer therapy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Ajay Tijore was a postdoctoral researcher in mechanobiologist Michael Sheetz\u2019s lab at the National University of Singapore, he and his team studied how mechanical strain affected cancer cells. A few years ago, the researchers found that low-frequency ultrasound waves triggered mechanical stress that killed several invasive cancer cell types.1 \u201cThat was kind of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}