The effectiveness of chemotherapy for brain cancer, done with a technique that opens the blood-brain barrier, can be ...

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is meant to protect the brain from noxious agents; however, it also significantly hinders the delivery of therapeutics to the brain. Several strategies have been employed ...

The properties of the blood-brain barrier serve a vital protective role, but they also keep drugs from reaching the organ. Big pharmaceutical companies have been making deals for technologies that ...

In a recent primer paper published in the journal Current Biology, researchers elucidated the structure and function of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). It highlights the BBB as a complex, dynamic ...

Alzheimer’s disease has long been framed as a problem of misfolded proteins and dying neurons, but a new wave of research is ...

Scientists have developed a lipid nanoparticle system capable of delivering messenger RNA (mRNA) to the brain via intravenous injection, a challenge that has long been limited by the protective nature ...

Daiza Gordon watched her two younger brothers die when they were adolescents. They had Hunter syndrome, a rare, incurable disease — predominantly affecting boys — in which a gene for an important ...

Novartis has inked a deal with Sironax that gives the pharma the exclusive option to acquire the biotech’s blood-brain barrier crossing technology after a trial period. If Novartis decides to buy the ...

Regular consumption of energy drinks, especially sugar-free varieties, may damage the brain's protective barrier (blood-brain barrier) and trigger inflammation, a new study, published in Frontiers ...

GSK has continued to flesh out its neuroscience strategy with a 2 billion pound sterling ($2.5 billion) deal to use a South Korean company’s tech to bypass the blood-brain barrier. ABL Bio has ...

Chronic alcohol consumption quietly destabilizes one of the brain’s most vital defenses-the blood-brain barrier (BBB)-through ...