Dr. Sandeep Kunwar explained that getting drugs into the brain is a major hurdle for glioblastoma, as the blood-brain barrier blocks most treatments. Dr. Sandeep Kunwar, a neurosurgeon and professor ...
The endothelial cells lining the blood vessels of your brain are stitched together so tightly that the gaps between them measure roughly 4 nanometers — about the width of a strand of DNA, and small ...
The wins in brain conditions like Alzheimer's, Huntington's and Parkinson's disease are beginning to stack up. But one major challenge still stands in the way of many promising treatments: the ...
Newswise — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Mayo Clinic researchers developed an experimental nanotherapy that delivers two cancer drugs directly to brain tumors, according to a study published in Nature ...
When Graeme F. Woodworth, MD, decided to focus his research efforts on glioblastomas, “everybody thought it was a dead end,” the neurosurgeon recalled. It wasn’t an unusual path for him. His first job ...
EQT Foundation Science Grant Researchers are pursuing multiple routes through and around the blood-brain barrier, including engineered biological carriers, molecular shuttles, gene therapy vectors, ...
A new study in Neurocritical Care links GLP-1 receptor agonist use to improved survival in patients undergoing surgery for ...
London's ExCeL center opened AAIC 2026 this morning with the most consequential claim the Alzheimer's field has heard in years: the blood-brain barrier — the endothelial wall that has blocked every ...