A Jacobs School researcher is focused on learning more about how tight junctions form naturally — and how their breakdown can lead to disease.

Researchers provide a comprehensive overview of the blood-brain barrier (BBB), detailing its cellular architecture, transport ...

The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of ...

On Sept. 18, Valentina Cigliola, an assistant professor from Vanderbilt University’s Department of Pharmacology, presented ...

Researchers from the University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland, and Örebro University, Sweden, have ...

Scientists in Chicago are mapping some fascinating evolutionary changes to local rodents — and how humans may have contributed to that change. Adaptation and evolution can steer the trajectory of a ...

The mummy now known as the Zimapán man was found to have a diverse microbiome that reveals more about what one ancient Mesoamerican culture ate.