Blood-brain barrier on a chip sheds new light on 'silent killer'

(Vanderbilt University) An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Vanderbilt Institute for Integrative Biosystems Research and Education (VIIBRE) has developed a microfluidic device containing human cells which faithfully mimics the behavior of the blood-brain barrier and used it to gain new insights into brain inflammation, which can be caused by injury or infections such as meningitis and encephalitis.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news