Nearly 2,000 years after Vesuvius, scientists are studying a black glass-like mass inside a skull: They say it may be vitrified brain tissue

Scientists have discovered what appears to be vitrified human brain tissue within a victim's skull from Herculaneum, buried ...
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4,000-Year-Old Child’s Skull Reveals Rare Ancient Brain Surgery in Uzbekistan

Archaeologists working in southern Uzbekistan have uncovered evidence that a five-year-old child underwent a form of brain ...
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Skull microchannels reveal hidden route for brain immune defense

A study led by Rafael Gallareto-Sande, a predoctoral researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), provides new insights into a network of tiny blood vessels ...
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Human skulls from Iconographic encyclopaedia of science, literature, and art.

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage ...
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Hijacking skull immune cells to bypass the blood-brain barrier for brain drug delivery

Drug-loaded albumin NPs hijack calvarial immune cells to bypass the BBB via skull-meninges microchannels for CNS drug delivery and stroke therapy, establishing skull-based delivery and immune-assisted ...