barrier

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In mouse studies, the compound successfully crossed the blood-brain barrier and influenced neuroinflammatory pathways linked to Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily • May 26, 2026

The “underwater city” of a barrier reef bustles with activity, with vibrantly patterned fish darting busily between corals and sea sponges.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Lesley Salem, founder of the workplace training organisation Over the Bloody Moon, said: "We want to make sure that hormonal health and menstrual health isn't a barrier."

From BBC • May 20, 2026

Another resident, who asked not to be named, said: "Nobody can follow the barrier measures - maybe only when we see more deaths. Today in the city centre I saw only four people wearing masks."

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Sixteen years later, however, the Indigenous villages had recovered and were a barrier to the settlers moving into the Colony of Connecticut, which was in Pequot territory.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz