Fine Data analysis and interpretation: Elizabeth R. Gerstner, Robert L. Fine Fig 1. Schematic diagram of the components of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) involved in the transport of molecules across ...

They are lined by a strange structure called the blood-brain barrier. It closely controls what is, and is not, allowed to leave the blood supply and enter the brain. It's your own personal customs ...

Scientists discover a treatment in mice to repair the blood-brain barrier, which is key to brain health. There's a bouncer in everyone: The blood-brain barrier, a layer of cells between blood ...

thanks to a feature known as the blood-brain barrier. Bioengineers believe that they can finally work around this barrier to deliver advanced treatments for medical conditions. Early goals include ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) performs this vital function, but it can become “leaky.” Now, scientists at Stanford have identified therapeutic molecules that could help patch it up ...

A July 6 post claims that the area sampled during a COVID-19 nasal swab is a part of the body called the blood-brain barrier. An image accompanying the post associates the blood-brain barrier with ...

Her doctors decided to try a new technique in which powerful anti-cancer drugs could burst through the blood-brain barrier and attack the tumor—the first time such a procedure has been done in a ...

The device inside the skull opens the blood-brain barrier, repeatedly using sound waves to permeate the barrier and reach the brain tumor. IV chemotherapy is then able to reach the neurological ...

Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have shown how the bacteria causing tuberculosis (TB) directly cross the brain's ...