‘Biology’s cookbook’: UBC team discovers new kind of brain cell linked to memory

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‘Biology’s cookbook’: UBC team discovers new kind of brain cell linked to memory

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‘Biology’s cookbook’: UBC team discovers new kind of brain cell linked to memory | Globalnews.ca

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The UBC team's research, published this week in the journal Nature Communications, dubbed the highly-specialized neurons 'ovoid cells.'

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