A new review highlights five major ways microplastics can harm the brain, raising concerns that they may worsen ...

Focused ultrasound with microbubbles is a noninvasive procedure that transiently opens the blood-brain barrier (BBB) using low-intensity sound waves. The openings reseal within 24 hours. Using MRI to ...

Focused ultrasound is just one strategy researchers are using to get drugs into the brain. This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it ...

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 ...

Use of MRI-guided focused ultrasound with standard chemotherapy is safe and may improve outcomes for people with glioblastoma ...

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

Elsewhere in the body, more than 100 United States Food and Drug Administration-approved therapeutic antibodies are used by medical teams to treat cancers and autoimmune, infectious and metabolic ...

Leakiness in the brain could explain the memory and concentration problems linked to long COVID. In patients with brain fog, MRI scans revealed signs of damaged blood vessels in their brains, ...