There are currently few good treatment options for glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain cancer with a high fatality rate. One reason that the disease is so difficult to treat is that most chemotherapy drugs can’t penetrate the blood vessels that
MIT researchers developed drug-carrying nanoparticles that appear to get into the brain more efficiently than drugs given on their own. Using a human tissue model that replicates the blood-brain barrier, they showed the particles could get into tumors and kill glioblastoma cells.