The results of an innovative way of tracing the life and death of neurons in culture favour one side of a debate about the protein accumulations associated with certain disorders of the nervous system.
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Orr, H. Neuron protection agency. Nature 431, 747–748 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/431747a
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