Delivering life-saving drugs across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) may become a little easier thanks to a new report published in the November 2014 issue of iThe FASEB Journal/i. In the report, scientists describe an antibody, called "FC5," is one-tenth the size of a traditional antibody and able to cross the BBB. Moreover, FC5 uses the same pathways as nutrients that the brain needs to survive, allowing it to "smuggle" larger antibodies across the barrier. Like ...
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