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Brain & Aging
A Federal Court Put This Pesticide Back on Your Food. UCLA Just Showed It More Than Doubles Parkinson's Risk.
Chlorpyrifos was pulled from American homes in 2001 and ordered off food crops in 2021. A manufacturer sued, won, and it's back on apples and strawberries while the science against it gets stronger.
Brain & AgingThe Alzheimer's Field Spent Decades Trying to Destroy These Droplets. A Baylor Lab Says the Droplets Were Never the Problem.
A Baylor lab reports that tubulin redirects Tau and alpha-synuclein away from toxic clumping in the test tube. It is elegant mechanism work, and not yet a drug, an animal, or a person.
Brain & AgingHarvard Just Mapped How a Mouse Smells, and It Quietly Rewrites What Smell Loss Means
Harvard used MERFISH to image roughly 1,100 odorant receptors across the mouse nose at once and found tidy stripes, not chaos. The clinical stakes for smell loss just got harder to wave off.