This article is based on a poster originally authored by Alexis T.P. Ngo, Acilegna G. Rodriguez, Jian-Lu Chen, Zachariah J. Builta, Xuexiang Zhang, and Mark S. Warren. The central nervous system (CNS) ...

University of Ottawa researchers report that extracellular vesicles can ferry engineered antibodies across the blood-brain ...

A 3D model accurately mimicking the Blood-Brain Barrier (BBB) in a laboratory environment has been successfully developed by research teams led by Professor Jinah Jang from the Departments of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Thom Leach/Science Photo Library/Getty Images) The brain keeps one of the strictest guest lists in the body. Oxygen and nutrients ...

The brain keeps one of the strictest guest lists in the body. Oxygen and nutrients may enter. Toxins, germs, and other substances traveling through the blood are turned away. Controlling the door is ...

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed an innovative approach—demonstrated in mouse models and isolated human brain tissue—to safely and effectively deliver ...

Researchers built a 3D bioprinted blood–brain–tumor barrier spheroid that self-organizes into barrier and tumor layers and ...

The blood-brain barrier protects the central nervous system by tightly regulating what crosses between the two compartments. Neurons are vulnerable if the barrier suffers damage or weakens with age, ...

Scientists from the University of Liverpool and their global collaborators have highlighted the most effective treatments for neurological diseases by overcoming one of medicine's most difficult ...