PLYMOUTH, Minn. — A nondescript industrial park in Plymouth is home to a med-tech startup that has been making some serious noise for its unique approach to fighting tumors.

"That is the natural sound of histotripsy," said Mike Blue, CEO of HistoSonics , showing off a robotic machine known as Edison, which uses advanced software to produce ultra-precise ultrasound waves to target tumors in a new way.

"Those ultrasound waves create a bubble cloud, millions of nanometer-sized bubbles, that are rapidly expanding and collapsing," Blue said, during a demo of the Edison machine for KARE 11. "That ultimately is what is destroying the tissue at a sub-cellular level."

In less than two minutes, you could see - and hear - the Edison robot work turn a sample of liver tissue into a liquid.

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