Making a 'beeline' past the blood-brain barrier for drug delivery

Sunday, April 2, 2017 - 16:21 in Biology & Nature

Most medicines can't get through the blood-brain barrier, but certain peptides in animal venoms can navigate across it to inflict damage. Now, researchers are capitalizing on venomous sneak attacks by developing a strategy based on a bee-venom peptide, apamin, to deliver medications to the brain.

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