A University of Minnesota Medical School-led research team has discovered that a cancer signaling pathway has previously ...

Researchers have uncovered a surprising connection between a cancer-related signaling pathway and the blood-brain and blood-retina barriers.

Researchers have discovered the virus that causes COVID-19 can breach the protective blood-retinal-barrier with potential long-term consequences in the eye.

Novartis has inked a deal with China-based biotech Sironax that gives the pharma the exclusive option to acquire the ...

Scientists discover a treatment in mice to repair the blood-brain barrier, which is key to brain health.

The human eye has two barriers, the blood-aqueous barrier in the front of the inner eye and the blood-retinal barrier at the back of the eyes. [Survey of Ophthalmology 1979] ...

Drug delivery to the eye presents additional challenges because of the blood-ocular barrier—the physical barrier between blood vessels and tissues of the eye—which tightly controls what ...

This delivery method takes advantage of the insulin receptor that is highly expressed in the outer nuclear layer of the retina and in the blood–retinal barrier.

The researchers found that a protein called hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) builds up in retinal cells during episodes of low ...

There's a bouncer in everyone: The blood-brain barrier, a layer of cells between blood vessels and the rest of the brain, kicks out toxins, pathogens and other undesirables that can sabotage the ...

The blood-retinal barrier designed to protect our vision from infection can be breached by SARS-CoV-2, with potential long-term consequences in the eye.