Futurity December 11, 2023
Researchers have shown for the first time that microvehicles can be steered through blood vessels in the brains of mice using ultrasound.
They hope that this will eventually lead to treatments capable of delivering drugs with pinpoint precision.
Brain tumors, brain hemorrhage, and neurological and psychological conditions are often hard to treat with medication. And even when effective drugs are available, these tend to have severe side effects because they circulate throughout the brain and not just the area they are meant to treat.
In light of this situation, researchers have high hopes of one day being able to provide a more targeted approach that would deliver medications to very specifically defined locations. To this end, they are in the...
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