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  1. Crossing the Line: Technique could treat brain diseases

    With the help of a molecule from the rabies virus, scientists have for the first time selectively ferried a drug across the blood-brain barrier to treat a neurological disease in mice.

    By Patrick Barry

  2. 19846

    This article describes attaching a drug molecule to a molecule from the rabies virus that enables the drug to cross the blood-brain barrier. This suggests a possible danger if the ability to produce the molecule could be transferred to the genomes of disease organisms in the wild. If the field of genetic engineering for drug […]

    By Science News
  3. Health & Medicine

    Fluorine highlights early tumors

    Microscopic, fluorine-packed particles can make small, cancerous growths easier to detect.