When treating brain disease, getting medication to the brain is difficult. But after 15 years of development, a Baltimore company now has a solution. Back in 2010, Dr. Chad Gordon reconstructed skulls in Boston. He noticed that many brain surgery patients ended up with missing fat and muscle in their skull. According to Gordon, 95 to 98% of oral medication never reaches the brain because of the "blood-brain barrier" — a protective layer of cells that surrounds it. In response, he designed an skull-implanted drug-delivery system designed to bypass the blood-brain barrier for direct, targeted treatment that fills out the empty space.
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