{"id":109285,"date":"2020-06-29T13:23:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/yale-captures-first-ever-video-of-brain-clearing-out-dead-neurons"},"modified":"2020-06-29T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T20:23:09","slug":"yale-captures-first-ever-video-of-brain-clearing-out-dead-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/yale-captures-first-ever-video-of-brain-clearing-out-dead-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Yale captures first ever video of brain clearing out dead neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BixMMfPkhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the average human body, tens of billions of cells die everyday. It\u2019s a natural process, important for keeping the body healthy. Now, for the first time, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have directly imaged the death of neurons in mice, as well as how the body clears them out afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Although it might seem like brain cells are things you\u2019d definitely want to keep around, it\u2019s better to get rid of the ones that aren\u2019t working. After all, a build-up of dead cells can damage the nervous system and has been implicated in neurodegenerative diseases.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent this, the brain \u2013 and indeed the rest of the body \u2013 has a natural process that clears out dead cells. But scientists haven\u2019t been sure about the exact mechanisms at work during this cellular \u201ccorpse removal\u201d process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the average human body, tens of billions of cells die everyday. It\u2019s a natural process, important for keeping the body healthy. Now, for the first time, researchers at Yale School of Medicine have directly imaged the death of neurons in mice, as well as how the body clears them out afterwards. Although it might [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}