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Blocking Potential Brain Metastases at the Blood Brain Barrier

This article was originally published in Start Up

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The flip side of facilitating drug delivery through the blood brain barrier is to figure out how bad actors such as tumor cells sometimes ease through it. A research team recently identified an enzyme that helps breast cancer cells do just that. Blocking its activity could help prevent metastasis to the brain, which occurs in some 15% of breast cancer patients.

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