In an in vitro blood - brain barrier, researchers can recreate the brain's transport processes for the benefit of the development of new pharmaceuticals for the brain. (sciencedaily.com)
Their method is applicable to any transporter from any organism, thereby enabling the otherwise exceptionally difficult analysis of transport processes in the tissues of plants and animals. (sciencedaily.com)
Now we still don't really understand why ribose gets across so much faster; we have some ideas but that's just a topic that's going to take a lot more study, but we never would have found this surprising result, you know, if we weren't systematically looking at these kinds of transport processes. (scientificamerican.com)