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 vessels ...

A model of a membrane called the blood–brain barrier could transform how scientists study drug delivery to the brain, as well as diseases of the brain’s vascular network. The model combines two ...

“If we want to address BBB dysfunction, we have to have a good human BBB model,” said Ziyuan Guo, a neurobiologist and stem cell scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. “The whole ...

In the late 19th century, Nobel prize-winning scientist Paul Ehrlich and his student, Edwin Goldmann, conducted an experiment by injecting a blue dye into the bloodstream of animals. They found that ...

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 ...

The blood-brain barrier plays an essential role in protecting the central nervous system from harmful bacteria, toxins, and other blood-borne pathogens. The blood-brain barrier plays an essential role ...

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, ...

The brain has a powerful ability to keep out blood containing unidentified elements, thanks to a feature known as the blood-brain barrier. Bioengineers believe that they can finally work around this ...

Enough pints of beer can have you falling off your bar stool or loudly reciting lyrics to early 2000s jams to total strangers, because alcohol can get past one of the strongest defenses in the body.

Borneol, a lipid‐soluble bicyclic monoterpene traditionally used in Chinese medicine, has emerged as a promising agent for enhancing drug delivery to the brain. Its unique ability to modulate the ...

Johnson & Johnson has turned to Bioasis for help getting drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). The deal grants J&J’s Janssen the chance to use a human transport protein to shuttle drug molecules ...