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Brain & Aging
The Marmoset Under Salk's Claim That Brain Waves Build the Reality You See
A Salk lab says the electrical waves rolling across your cortex are a generative engine that builds what you see. The catch: the splashy new paper is a review, and the experiments under it are marmosets squinting at faint dots.
CancerFor Twenty Years, a Vitamin B12 Cancer Drug Has Worked in Mice, Dogs, and Rats. It Still Hasn't Reached a Human Trial.
Nitrosylcobalamin crossed the blood-brain barrier and pooled in a rat's brain tumor. This study didn't shrink one, the synergy ran in a petri dish, and the scientist behind the headlines holds the patents.