The brain is a self-cleaning machine. A previously unknown plumbing system blasts out waste by flushing it with the brain’s cleaning solution — cerebrospinal fluid.
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Cellular or Celestial? A tapestry of stars, like "the heavens' embroidered cloths, enwrought with golden and silver light", astrocytes tile the entire central nervous system in a continuous and essentially non-overlapping manner that is orderly and well organized. A single astrocyte may contact 100,000 synapses! 
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A type of cell plentiful in the brain, long considered mainly the stuff that holds the brain together and oft-overlooked by scientists more interested in flashier cells known as neurons, wields more power in the brain than has been realized, according to new research published March 29 in Science Signaling. Articles about NEUROSCIENCE: http://www.scoop.it/t/science-news?page=1&tag=neuroscience
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