Experts from the Italian Institute of Technology created a biohybrid blood-brain barrier

Experts from the Italian Institute of Technology created a biohybrid blood-brain barrier, which allows you to conduct studies of various drugs and nanomedicine products, as well as assess their ability to cross this barrier. In addition, the invention makes it possible to study the entire process without using laboratory animals. As stated by one of the authors of the study, Gianni Chofani, "The system is called bio-hybrid due to a combination of artificial and biological elements. Capillaries are made of nanotubes printed on a 3D printer using two-photon lithography, as well as endothelial cells framing the framework. Our system allows to simulate the process of overcoming the blood-brain barrier and measure a number of parameters: drug concentration, blood flow velocity, acidity of the medium and temperature. "

That's why neurocomputer interfaces (NCIs) - a subset of a wider area of ​​neural engineering, which itself is a subset of biotechnology - are so interesting. We have repeatedly conquered the world with our technologies, but when it comes to the brains - our main tool - the world of technology does not give us anything. Therefore, we continue to communicate using the technologies invented by Bock.