Alzheimer's disease is not only about the accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. A growing number of studies indicate ...

Blood proteins tied to faster cognitive decline in older Black adults have been identified in a new Oxford journal study. A ...

Miniature brain models grown from patients’ cells revealed striking differences in how Alzheimer’s-related tissue responds to ...

Summary: To breach the blood-brain barrier without invasive surgery, the team utilized MRI-guided focused ultrasound (FUS) ...

A new experimental treatment may have found a way to outsmart glioblastoma’s toughest defense: the blood-brain barrier.

Glioblastoma is an aggressive brain cancer with low survival rates due to the blood brain barrier blocking many chemotherapy ...

Graphic illustration showing sugar-coated nanoparticles crossing the blood-brain barrier to treat glioblastoma. (Parinaz ...

Peter Searson is leading a Johns Hopkins University team that is unravelling how Alzheimer's and other diseases disrupt the blood-brain barrier, the complex interface that allows or blocks the passage ...

“If we want to address BBB dysfunction, we have to have a good human BBB model,” said Ziyuan Guo, a neurobiologist and stem cell scientist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. “The whole ...

Maternal cells that infiltrate children's brains during pregnancy take on different jobs in the brain and may persist into ...