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Renewing This Old Brain - Dr. Jean Hebert

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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The Role of Microglia in Alzheimer's Disease

Microglia could be used to deliver biologic drugs to the brain under any disease, a condition that can't otherwise get to the brain. Biologics don't cross the blood brain barrier by and large so there's no delivery mechanism for getting there. Microglia are secreting a therapeutic factor that would otherwise be hard to distribute into the brain tissue.

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