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New clot-clearing mechanism has implications for many big diseases

Some papers that one might imagine would fire a storm of interest fail at first to resonate in the scientific community. This was the case with neurologist Jaime Grutzendler’s published last May. He described an entirely new and surprising biological mechanism, whereby the tiniest capillaries in the brain clear themselves of micro-blood-clots as well as other junk in the blood, such as fragments of cholesterol plaques or cellular debris.

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