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New study finds that the shape of the brain influences the way it works
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New study finds that the shape of the brain influences the way it works

by Monash University Credit: CC0 Public Domain For over a century, researchers have thought that the patterns of brain activity that define our experiences, hopes and dreams are determined by how different brain regions communicate with each other through a complex web of trillions of cellular connections. Now, a study led by from researchers at Monash University’s Turner Institute for...

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Cellular connections found between nervous and immune systems

by Claudia Lopez Lloreda,  Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Researchers have found sensory nerve fibers (red) that interact with lymph nodes (green) in mice. Credit: Siyi Huang, John Austin, Najat Mannoun The nervous and immune systems have long been thought to be separate entities in the body, but new research has uncovered a direct cellular...