Inside a laboratory at Monash University, miniature replicas of the human brain are revealing secrets that could forever change how we treat childhood brain cancer. These tiny "organoids" – no bigger ...

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay ReporterMONDAY, June 23, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A common blood test can flag early Alzheimer’s disease patients who are four times more likely to experience rapid brain ...

This large iron-bearing molecule is shuttled across the blood–brain barrier by transferrin receptors on endothelial cells. Source: S. Edavettal et al. Med 3, 860–882 (2022) ...

The blood-brain barrier weakens during normal aging and in neurodegenerative disease, but the reasons are not fully understood. In the February 26 Nature, scientists led by Tony Wyss-Coray and Carolyn ...

Recent reports have indicated that elevated levels of homocysteine (Hcy) are closely linked to blood–brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction in neurological disorders. Oroxylin A (OA) is a key bioactive ...

Blood–brain-barrier-crossing lipid nanoparticles (BLNPs) effectively and safely deliver mRNA to the brain via systemic administration. [Created with BioRender.com in the lab of Yizhou Dong, PhD ...

Gal Gadot revealed she was diagnosed with a "massive blood clot" on her brain while eight months pregnant with her daughter, who was born after emergency surgery.

Brain 'assembloids' mimic human blood-brain barrier Date: May 20, 2024 Source: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Summary: Major advance promises to accelerate the understanding and ...

The authors also created brain and blood-vessel organoids using stem cells from people with a genetic disorder that causes the blood–brain barrier to fail. These yielded assembloids that ...

The brain is among the most “immune-privileged” of organs primarily through the highly selective permeability of the blood-brain-barrier (BBB), its minimal lymphatic drainage, the presence of ...

Maybe the blood brain barrier disruption seen in some concussion patients applies to long COVID brain fog, too, the researchers surmised. Evidence for SARS-CoV-2’s damaging effects on the brain ...