‘The bridge between hope and healing’ | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

‘The bridge between hope and healing’ | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Tens of millions of people affected by brain cancer, strokes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and other neurological diseases share a painful dilemma: a lack of viable therapeutic options. Tantalizingly, one of the biggest treatment obstacles is the very thing that protects the brain from harm: the blood-brain barrier (BBB). While the BBB does a remarkable job of shielding the brain from pathogens and facilitating the delivery of essential nutrients, …