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In a new study, published in Cell, the research team have overcome this problem by identifying the distinct 'electrical signatures' of different neuron types in the mouse brain, using brief pulses of ...

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The COVID-19 pandemic gave us tremendous perspective on how wildly symptoms and outcomes can vary between patients ...