Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Repeated blows to the head over years of contact sports can lead to chronic brain damage. For decades, scientists have struggled ...

(Myriams-Fotos/Pixabay) The blood-brain barrier surrounds the blood vessels that run through the brain, letting in oxygen and nutrients while keeping out toxins and pathogens. It's an absolutely ...

A man wearing a T shirt and fleece vest sits at a corner office desk with a fluorescence microscopy image of the brain on a monitor in the background. Corresponding author Jiefu Li looks at an image ...

In a recent primer paper published in the journal Current Biology, researchers elucidated the structure and function of the blood-brain barrier (BBB). It highlights the BBB as a complex, dynamic ...

VIB and Ghent University researchers have identified and characterized a previously unknown cellular barrier in the brain, which sheds new light on how the brain is protected from the rest of the body ...

Researchers found that the hippocampus, a key memory region, appears to undergo a major immune-cell shift from around age 50. Long-standing brain immune cells called microglia seemed to decline and ...

The brain is our most treasured possession. It coordinates our movements, our words, our relationships, and the ability to pass on our genes. Our body therefore protects the organ fiercely: The ...

Dr. Sandeep Kunwar explained that getting drugs into the brain is a major hurdle for glioblastoma, as the blood-brain barrier blocks most treatments. Dr. Sandeep Kunwar, a neurosurgeon and professor ...

The blood–brain barrier (BBB) is a specialised multicellular interface that tightly regulates the exchange of ions, molecules and cells between the blood and the central nervous system. In healthy ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to understand exactly how years of taking hits to the head while playing sports can translate into severe memory loss and dementia later in life. The work is a ...