Focused-Ultrasound Enables Transient BBB Opening (IMAGE)

Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science

Focused-Ultrasound Enables Transient BBB Opening

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Gene editing may offer a new therapeutic strategy to tackle many neurodegenerative disorders that remain untreatable. Current methodologies of delivering CRISPR-based gene editing elements to the brain are highly inefficient; Leong's group proposes to develop an efficient, noninvasive alternative.

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