Nano-devices that cross blood-brain barrier open door to treatment of cerebral palsy
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 18:11
in Health & Medicine
A team of scientists from Johns Hopkins and elsewhere have developed nano-devices that successfully cross the brain-blood barrier and deliver a drug that tames brain-damaging inflammation in rabbits with cerebral palsy.
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