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'Zap-And-Freeze' Brain Imaging Could Reveal The Secrets of Parkinson's


Researchers have come up with a clever new way of freezing brain cells just as they fire out a signal, meaning processes that normally happen too quickly to observe can be studied in detail – and perhaps offer clues for treating conditions like Parkinson's disease, where this signaling becomes disrupted.

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