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Astrocytes stabilize circuits in adult mouse brain

The Transmitter January 06, 2026
The Transmitter seeks an outside expert perspective from Marc Freeman, Ph.D., about a new study that finds astrocytes in mice secrete a type of protein that stabilizes circuits in the brain. He says all those cell types in the brain “are a lot for one molecule to coordinate.”

The Public Health Educators Changing How We Think About Fat

Portland Monthly January 06, 2026
In a Portland Monthly story about health educators adopting new practices to combat bias against people with larger bodies, Hannah Cory, Ph.D., says faculty members at the OHSU-Portland State University School of Public Health are focused on changing attitudes in the health care workforce: “People will say, ‘Come back to me after you’ve lost weight.’ Deterring people from getting health care is not what public health is about.”
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