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What if your brain could heal itself from brain damage? Science fiction? Not for the African turquoise killifish! Neuroscientist Valerie Mariën (KU Leuven) is studying this remarkable fish and how it is able to repair its brain, in the hope that in the future it will be able to help people with brain damage.
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