Doctors breach the blood-brain barrier for the first time
Our blood-brain barrier is a highly selective membrane specially designed to only allow very specific molecules access to our grey matter while keeping everything else out — regardless of whether they’re invading foreign bodies or potentially life-saving medicines. That’s no longer the case. Doctors from Toronto’s Sunnybrook Hospital have recently managed to temporarily jiggle the barrier open using directed ultrasonic waves and keep it open long enough to deliver chemotherapy drugs.
Via: Motherboard
Source: The Globe and Mail
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