The average human brain contains around 7 grams of plastic, but it’s unclear how this affects us. Now animal studies are revealing links to poor cognition and weird behaviour ...

The Searle Scholar award will allow Yang to pursue independent research that sheds new light on the blood-brain barrier, a ...

"If approved, this technology will enable doctors to safely and temporarily open the blood-brain barrier for the first time ever — allowing a greater number of potentially more effective ...

A harmful form of the tau protein, which builds up in Alzheimer's disease and similar brain disorders, can directly damage ...

The low-profile micropipette (“cannula”) is implanted at a shallow angle, as low as 8 degrees, nearly parallel to the brain's surface. As reported in Neurophotonics, this approach ensures that imaging ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine’s most difficult challenges, limiting our ability to treat conditions like Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease ...

For bacterial meningitis, first-line treatment may include antibiotics, which can cross the barrier of cells that protects the brain, called the blood-brain barrier. Other medications may also ...

However, many compounds cannot cross the blood-brain barrier and, therefore ... nearly parallel to the brain's surface. As reported in Neurophotonics, this approach ensures that imaging agents ...

The Blood-Brain Barrier Summit will take place online from June 28-30, 2021. This Hanson Wade event is aimed at experts looking to deliver CNS drug candidates safely and successfully across the ...

Getting therapeutic drugs past the blood-brain barrier has long been one of medicine's most difficult challenges, limiting our ability to treat conditions like Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's ...

In a study, University of Michigan researchers have created nanodiscs that can target cholesterol levels in GBM, starving the ...

Reduced levels of a critical protein are linked to devastating brain diseases like Alzheimer's, frontotemporal dementia, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Surprisingly, the protein shortage ...