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Hopkins cracks blood-brain barrier with nanobeads

Getting drugs into the brain is a bit of a holy grail, but researchers at Johns Hopkins University believe that they are a step closer with nanoparticles that can penetrate into the brain, potentially preventing recurrence of cancer after surgery by destroying any remaining tumor cells.

'Green' nanoparticles get drugs across blood-brain barrier

Researchers at the Harvard-affiliated McLean Hospital are taking a cue from the body's natural delivery method to get drugs across the blood-brain barrier.

GSK, Angiochem dream of brain delivery for enzyme disorder drugs

Angiochem will work with GlaxoSmithKline ($GSK) on creating new treatments that can cross the blood-brain barrier.

India researchers pursue nanoparticle rabies treatment

Scientists are seeking health department clearance in India to begin testing a rabies treatment in humans that uses silver nanoparticles to deliver itself to the brain. The Times of India reports on

Alnylam, Medtronic RNAi drug-device combo wows with preclinical data

For years now, scientists have touted the enormous promise of using RNAi treatments to turn off bad genes that cause disease, but delivering the drugs effectively to their target cells, particularly

Shire pump bypasses hurdle to sneak enzyme drug into brain

Shire is zipping ahead with clinical research of pump implants in the spine, potentially overcoming a natural hurdle to delivering its enzyme-replacement drug Elaprase into the brains of patients

Biotechs grab funds for drugs that cross brain barrier

European biotech NeuroVive and to-BBB technologies have found funds for a novel stroke therapy. Eurostars, a program that funds business activity in Europe, has awarded €500,000 to each of the

Ultrasound could aid delivery of drugs into brain

Columbia University engineers might have rekindled some faith in using ultrasound pulses to open the blood-brain barrier for drugs to reach targets in the brain. While ultrasound pulses were cast off

Adenosine used to break through BBB, deliver large-molecule drugs

Another set of researchers are knocking on the door of the blood-brain barrier , trying to get at the prize inside of better treatments for Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and cancers of the central

Smuggling drugs across the blood-brain barrier

The blood-brain barrier is nature's way of making sure only authorized personnel enter our body's command center, much to the frustration of drug developers who would love to storm the gates and