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Your Cerebrospinal Fluid May Hold a Blueprint For Treating Alzheimer's


Your brain and spinal cord are suspended in about 125 mL of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) that not only protects your precious neurons like a kind of liquid bubble wrap, but contains a rich mix of proteins that record the activity of the nervous system it guards.

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