{"id":247422,"date":"2026-11-15T07:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/new-study-rewrites-the-rules-of-the-blood-brain-barrier"},"modified":"2026-11-15T07:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T13:08:12","slug":"new-study-rewrites-the-rules-of-the-blood-brain-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/new-study-rewrites-the-rules-of-the-blood-brain-barrier","title":{"rendered":"New Study Rewrites The Rules of The Blood-Brain Barrier"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The blood-brain barrier is a powerful thing.<\/p>\n<p>It maintains a strict \u2018guest list\u2019 of who\u2019s allowed in and who is banned from entering our most delicate organ.<\/p>\n<p>But a new study, published in the journal <em><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2026.10.039\">Cell<\/a> <\/em>today, suggests the blood-brain barrier may be doing far more for our brains than we realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blood-brain barrier is a powerful thing. It maintains a strict \u2018guest list\u2019 of who\u2019s allowed in and who is banned from entering our most delicate organ. But a new study, published in the journal Cell today, suggests the blood-brain barrier may be doing far more for our brains than we realized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}