An Ultrasound Implant Designed to Push Brain Drugs Deeper
In the app: the whole story at your level, listening, the quiz and the word cards.
The same story at six levels
How the first sentence reads at every level, from A1 to C2.
- A1
Scientists at MIT made a new machine.
- A2
Scientists at MIT made a new medical machine called LUCID.
- B1
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a flexible implant called LUCID.
- B2
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a flexible implant called LUCID, short for Long-term Ultrasound-enhanced Convective Injection Device.
- C1
Slightly over 10,000 cases of glioblastoma, an aggressive and deadly brain cancer, are diagnosed in the United States each year.
- C2
Slightly over 10,000 cases of glioblastoma are diagnosed in the United States each year.
Key words
Words from the B1 text, with their meaning.
- implant
- an object put inside a person's body during a medical operation
- release
- to let a substance flow out into an area
- tissue
- a group of connected cells in an animal or plant that are similar to each other
- barrier
- something that prevents things from moving from one place to another
- substance
- a solid, liquid, or gas with particular qualities
- recharge
- to put electricity back into a battery
Rewritten with AI from facts reported by MIT News. Read the original for the full report.