Treatment successfully delivers drug across the blood-brain barrier directly to brain tumor in mice Glioblastoma currently has no cure. New treatments urgently needed Powerful drug is 1,400... Read more
Focused ultrasound is a safe and effective way to target and open areas of the blood-brain barrier, potentially allowing for new treatment approaches to Alzheimer’s disease, according... Read more
Microfluidic Organ Chip model of human blood-brain barrier that recapitulates in vivo barrier functions offers new preclinical tool for development of brain-targeting therapeutics Like airpo... Read more
For the first timehttps://www.innovationtoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/213780_webwe4.jpg, scientists have identified a simple way that can effectively transport medication into the b... Read more
Interdisciplinary research brings together imaging, aerosols and pediatric neuro oncology to fight tumors A person’s brainstem controls some of the body’s most important functions, including... Read more
Cornell researchers have discovered a way to open one of the major barriers to the brain, called the blood brain barrier (BBB), which prevents the entry of therapies to treat brain disorders... Read more
Researchers at Massachusetts Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and Boston University have successfully shown neuroprotection in a Parkinson’s mouse model using new techniques to deliver dru... Read more
Magnetic nanoparticles can open the blood-brain barrier and deliver molecules directly to the brain, say researchers from the University of Montreal, Polytechnique Montréal, and CHU Sainte-J... Read more
For the first time, doctors have opened and closed the brain’s protector – the blood-brain barrier – on demand. The breakthrough will allow drugs to reach diseased areas of the brain t... Read more
Weizmann Institute researchers suggest that the brain’s “immunological age” is what counts How the brain ages is still largely an open question – in part because this organ is mostly i... Read more
University of Pennsylvania researchers have found a way of traversing the blood-brain barrier, as well as a similar physiological obstacle in the eye, the retinal-blood barrier The body is s... Read more
Nanotherapeutic that can cross blood-brain barrier reported in journal The University of Delaware’s Emily Day is a part of a team of researchers that has developed a nanotherapeutic capable... Read more
Despite barriers of blood, brain and bureaucracy, intranasal insulin may emerge as a promising treatment for pathological memory loss The newest chemical under investigation for managing Alz... Read more
The blood-brain barrier protects the brain from poisons but also prevents drugs from reaching brain tumors; innovative new treatments are needed. This laboratory study shows that a nanotechn... Read more
