Blood-Brain Barrier

shuler

Getting drugs past the neuroprotective blood-brain barrier (BBB) has been a perplexing problem and formidable challenge for researchers and pharmaceutical companies alike. Hesperos’s creation of a microfluidic model capable of mimicking in vivo characteristics of the … Read More

hesperos

The challenge: Build microfluidic devices that can keep cells alive in a setting that mimics specific organs or tissues, and incorporate biosensors to measure the cells’ physiology. The goal: Mimic diseases and test drug responses that … Read More