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Yale University: How the Brain Knows When to Take Out the Trash
January 26, 2022
NEW HAVEN, Connecticut, Jan. 26 (TNSJou) -- Yale University issued the following news on Jan. 25, 2022:

The brain has its own housekeeping service, a sophisticated mechanism that cleans up debris that is left over from cellular activity. But scientists have had a hard time figuring out exactly how the brain knows when to initiate this cellular "trash pickup."

A Yale-led team of scientists has identified a protein that is key to this process, which is known as . . .

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