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 controls which substances or materials enter and exit the brain. A leaky barrier has been known to cause some of the symptoms of brain fog. Sure enough, long COVID patients ...

The blood-brain barrier (BBB) is a tightly interlaced system of specialized cells that creates a layered semi-permeable membrane that serves a dual purpose: it protects against toxins or pathogens ...

In a new study published in the Journal of Neuroinflammation, researchers at the Crick aimed to explore how TB bacteria cross the thin membrane of the blood–brain barrier by seeing how the ...

The skull provides physical protection against knocks and bumps, but there’s a lesser-known defense mechanism at work too: the blood-brain barrier. It’s responsible for keeping all the nasty ...

The brain is among the most “immune-privileged” of organs primarily through the highly selective permeability of the blood-brain-barrier (BBB), its minimal lymphatic drainage, the presence of ...

Designing BBB organoids posed a technical challenge: growing the two components—the brain ... blood vessels in the BBB. In contrast, blood vessel organoids did not express these molecules before ...

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 ...

were published in Nature Materials in a paper titled "Blood–brain-barrier-crossing lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery to ...

That barrier, tightly knit cells lining blood vessels, typically keeps riffraff out of the brain, like bouncers guarding a nightclub. If the barrier breaks down, bloodborne viruses, cells and ...