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29 June 2026
Persisting with Reason
Study of the developing mouse finds developmentally programmed transient and long-lived senescent cells (a diverse cell type that doesn't divide anymore, but metabolises and, in certain situations, has a physiological function) in initiating and maintaining the blood-brain and the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers that are essential for brain and nervous system function
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- Clip from a video from work by L. Ashley Watson, Zoe Adelsheim and Mackenzie J. Carter, and colleagues
- Department of Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
- Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Published in Cell, June 2026
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