Leaky brains (IMAGE)

University of California - Berkeley

Leaky brains

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Cross section of a fruit fly brain showing how substances from the blood (green) seep in after cytokines from a distant tumor break down the barrier between the bloodstream and the brain. Blocking the cytokine improved the health and survival of both fruit flies and mice with cancer and could do the same for human cancer patients.

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Image by Jung Kim, UC Berkeley

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