r/science • u/Wagamaga • Oct 08 '24

Neuroscience Brain’s waste-clearance pathways revealed for the first time. Wastes include proteins such as amyloid and tau, which have been shown to form clumps and tangles in brain images of patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

https://news.ohsu.edu/2024/10/07/brains-waste-clearance-pathways-revealed-for-the-first-time
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u/DasSpitter Oct 09 '24

I love radiolab with all my heart. I actually work in a Neuroscience Research Lab, but I mostly work on the human Neuropathology Autopsy side of things, but I also assist the labs that work with mice and embed and cut the little mouse brains for them.

I'm totally listening to this at work tomorrow. Thanks!

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u/ConcentrateOk000 Oct 09 '24

Of course! Have you listened to this one?

Neuroscience is what I am hoping to do in my higher degrees:)

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u/DasSpitter Oct 10 '24 edited Oct 10 '24

Whatttt!?! Not yet, but it's officially in my queue now! Do you listen to Stuff You Should Know? It was the very first podcast I ever listened to on the different ways donated bodies are used other than medical cadavers & use at the Body Farm. I'll see if I can find it way back in their catalog.

How to Donate Your Body to Science

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u/ConcentrateOk000 Oct 10 '24

I have not! I did just follow it on spotify. I weirdly would love to visit a body farm haha. I took a forensic anthropology class, and that’s where I first learned they exist.

I would happily have my corpse encased in concrete and dropped to the bottom of a river for science.