Our understanding how our brain ages and why our memory begins to slip around age 50 have been completely revamped through 2 new landmark studies involving the microglia, the brain immune cells erictopol.substack.com/p/why-our-me...

Why Our Memory Slips After Age 50

Landmark independent studies challenge longstanding dogma for brain aging

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Gaining therapeutic access to the human brain is one of the biggest unsolved problems in biomedical science. Today @nature.com, we uncover a massive influx of immune cells into the human brain during aging, revealing that the brain is more accessible than previously thought. 1/

And here it is! Our study in clonal hematopoiesis and Alzheimer’s disease — product of 5 years’ gestation. urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...

Happy to share our paper describing SPACE-seq - a new approach to spatial multiomics and lineage tracing - out today in @pnas.org! 🧵(1/5)

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