In an early-stage clinical trial, the therapy nearly doubled the expected survival time of young patients. Still, experts ...

High-grade glioma, an aggressive form of pediatric and adult brain cancer, is challenging to treat given the tumor location, ...

A new research study led by Jonathan D. Santoro, MD, Director of the Neuroimmunology Program at Children’s Hospital Los ...

A study shows that high-grade glioma tumor cells harboring DNA alterations in the gene PDGFRA responded to the drug avapritinib, which is already approved by the United States Food and Drug ...

A receptor that cannabis latches onto in the brain could be a promising target for future mental health treatments.

Avapritinib, an FDA-approved drug used to treat other types of cancer, also decreases aggressive gliomas in animal models and ...

For years, scientists studying brain aging have focused on proteins and DNA. But what if a crucial piece of the puzzlehas ...

High-grade glioma, an aggressive form of pediatric and adult brain cancer, is challenging to treat given the tumor location, incidence of recurrence ...

The blood-brain barrier is a network of blood vessels and tissues that acts as a protective shield, preventing harmful substances in the blood from reaching the brain. In Alzheimer’s disease, this ...

That’s why researchers are working on ways of delivering drugs to the brain precisely, via the bloodstream. The aim is to overcome the blood-brain barrier which normally only allows certain nutrients ...