Saturday, January 12, 2008

Using rabies to deliver drugs directly to the brain

Marilyn sez, "Harvard Medical School researchers have developed an ingenious way to deliver drugs directly to the brain (in order to kill a tumor, for example), that uses the virus that causes rabies, which is extremely effective in infiltrating the blood brain barrier that blocks most other kinds of molecules."


This sounds alarmingly like the set-up for a biomedical disaster flick.

1 comment:

Nick Redfern said...

28 Days Later here we come...