A Recipe to Make a Human Blood-Brain Barrier

"“The main advance is we now have a fully defined process that uses small molecules to guide cells through the developmental process,” says University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of chemical and biological engineering Sean Palecek of the method that substitutes chemical factors for cells to push stem cells to become the brain endothelial cells that compose the blood-brain barrier. “It is fully defined. We know what components are acting on the cells” and at what stages of development."
http://neurosciencenews.com/blood-brain-barrier-creation-7904/

(for further understanding and review of the importance of endothelial dysfunction in MS, please read: "Multiple Sclerosis and cerebral dysfunction: Mechanisms" ...authored by members of the ISNVD www.isnvd.org)http://www.pathophysiologyjournal.com/article/S0928-4680(10)00020-9/pdf

Researchers have defined a process that can help to create more realistic human blood-brain barriers in a dish.