Three Massachusetts families are sounding the alarm after their vacations were cut short by car thieves in Canada. Authorities say vehicle thefts are on the.
There are currently few good treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer with a high fatality rate. One reason that the disease is so difficult to treat is that most chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that
MIT researchers developed drug-carrying nanoparticles that appear to get into the brain more efficiently than drugs given on their own. Using a human tissue model that replicates the blood-brain barrier, they showed the particles could get into tumors and kill glioblastoma cells.