Tag: <span>better understanding</span>

Home / better understanding
Achieving a better understanding of how the blood-brain barrier works
Post

Achieving a better understanding of how the blood-brain barrier works

by Vinzenz Greiner, ETH Zurich In order to better understand how the blood-brain barrier protects our central nervous system from harmful substances in the bloodstream, ETH researchers have developed a new in-vitro model. Credit: Gunilla Elam / Science Photo Library Up to now, the use of models to research the barrier that separates the circulatory...