The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates more than two million Americans suffer from substance abuse disorders related to prescription opioids. For thousands of them, what started as relief ...
Daiza Gordon watched her two younger brothers die when they were adolescents. They had Hunter syndrome, a rare, incurable disease — predominantly affecting boys — in which a gene for an important ...
A study recently published in Nature has identified a key factor in the age-related breakdown of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and has demonstrated that this damage may be reversible, potentially ...
In lieu of animal experiments, researchers from the University of Rochester are using state-of-the-art microchips with human ...
A new research paper was published in Aging (Aging-US) on May 1, 2025, as the cover of Volume 17, Issue 5, titled "Defining the hypoxic thresholds that trigger blood-brain barrier disruption: the ...
A new study suggests that the blood-brain barrier (BBB) remains intact in a widely used mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease.