Neat News 2577 (added 2023-01-20)
Overcoming blood-brain barrier
© Stolp HB, Liddelow SA, Sá-Pereira I, Dziegielewska KM and Saunders NR [CC BY-SA 3.0]
When medication is applied to the brain, e.g., potential Alzheimer gene therapy, then there is the problem that the brain's protection mechanism, the so-called blood-brain barrier, prevents the medication from reaching the brain's cells. Now a nano-particle based approach has been found that can overcome this barrier.
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