In mid-July, while the United States was experiencing an overwhelming surge of COVID-19 cases, the New York Times reported a shocking but largely unnoticed statistic:
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Microglia are generally thought of simply as the innate immune cells of the brain, responsible for removing dead neurons via phagocytosis. However, Ana Badimon and
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Image courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory (Wikimedia Commons). While the anthropogenic element of climate change remains a hotly politicized topic and the crisis itself becomes