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Recruiting the brain’s underdogs

About half of the human brain is made up of cells, known as astrocytes, which researchers used to think were like the scaffolding that holds...

Recrutement des exclus du cerveau

Environ la moitié du cerveau humain est composé de cellules appelées astrocytes, que les chercheurs avaient l’habitude de comparer à l’échafaudage qui maintient les neurones...

Connecting transplanted brain cells

Neuroscientist Caroline Lafrechoux has been fascinated with the networks of neurons and electrical signals in the brain since she was seven years old, and saw...

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