Blood-Brain Barrier: Here's How This Tight Layer Protects Your Brain

Medicine & Technology Mar 20, 2024

The blood-brain barrier helps protects the brain against germs, pathogens, and other harmful things. Read to learn more.

Bubbles and Ultrasound: Novel Technique Kills Cancer Cells

Jun 29, 2022

Cancers have been very difficult for experts to remove completely because of their natural resistance to therapies and elusiveness from the immune system. Read on to find out how gas-filled microbubbles and ultrasound allow researchers to remove 80% of tumor cells.

Inhaling Air Pollution Harms Your Brain Directly, Here's How

Jun 23, 2022

A new study confirms that air pollutants we inhale could directly infiltrate our brain. Read more about how the particles travel to the central nervous system and the negative health effects people could get from this problem.

Nanoparticles Inhibit Tumors That Trigger the Immune System to Eliminate Cancer

May 27, 2022

Brain tumors are particularly difficult to treat because they secrete cytokines that block off the immune system. Read on to find out how a newly developed nanoparticle-carrying inhibitor is able to defeat cancer cells and delay their progression.

Tay-Sachs Disease Treatment: Two Children Became First-Ever Successful Gene Therapy, After 14 Years of Development

Feb 16, 2022

Two babies have recently been reported to have been given the first-ever treatment for a severe neurological disease called Tay-Sachs disease after more than 14 years of development.

Silver and Zinc Oxide's Ability to Penetrate the Blood Brain Barrier Dictated by Its Form and Shape

Jul 06, 2021

Researchers from the University of Birmingham discovered that the shape and form of nanomaterials heavily influence its penetrating ability to in vitro blood-brain barrier models which can open new treatments to brain disease.

Scientists Can Now Recreate Blood-Brain Barrier Defect Outside the Body

Jun 06, 2019

The study further advanced the science by using induced pluripotent stem cells to generate a functioning blood-brain barrier inside an Organ-Chip that displayed a characteristic defect of the individual patient’s disease