re: Jawless fish take a bite out of the blood-brain barrier

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Anyway. I’m more curious about the applications for PD and Alzheimer’s. Particularly PD since Ldopa has a limited effect window because it can’t cross the BBB. Be a game-changer to finally get an effective treatment.

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We are, I hope, on the verge of a new frontier when it comes to medicine. A time when children will be astounded at the people killed by cancer, dementia, and Alzheimer's as we are astounded by the people killed by smallpox and cholera back in the day.

While I think he has an amazingly annoying nasal way of singing... Bob Dylan was right on one thing. The times they are a changing. Our grandchildren, if we continue to fund science, will live in a world free from the scourges that we know now.

That or the douchebags will kill us all because they read somewhere on twitter that vaccines cause people to read.