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New studies show that astrocytes, long thought to be support cells in the brain, are crucial intermediaries for relaying messages to neurons.

Figure 1: Antibody production by doubly transgenic mice infected with lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus (LCMV). To find out whether these mice mount a strong antibody response against LCMV, we ...

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