MIT unlocks mystery behind brain imaging
Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 15:21
in Biology & Nature
In work that solves a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes make noninvasive brain scans possible.
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