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todayilearned
Dec 04, 2019
TIL that MIT engineers have created a robotic, snake-like thread that can navigate through narrow blood vessels in the brain, promising treatment for strokes and other blockages.
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todayilearned
Aug 11, 2019
TIL Two centuries ago, the anatomist Paolo Mascagni made full-body models of the lymphatic system that included the brain, though this was dismissed as an error. No one had published definitive evidence of lymph vessels in any brain until a Virginia mouse study and a concordant Helsinki one in 2015.
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