Researchers uncover skull's potential in diagnosing and treating brain diseases like Alzheimer's

The study findings could open up new possibilities to monitor brain inflammation simply by scanning the surface of the patient’s head.

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00:23 - So transparencies like this,

00:41 it reveals inner structures,

00:45 how the organs function at very detailed level

00:49 without really breaking it.

00:50 So that is really the key,

00:52 that was the key for us to discover

00:55 that the human skull can interact with the brain

01:00 and that can help us to tackle brain diseases.

01:02 So you think about this looking into a glass of milk

01:06 versus water.

01:07 So what we do is converting milk into water

01:11 and that requires some biochemical processes

01:13 including dehydration and dilipitations.

01:16 And we remove this,

01:18 or you can think there's removing these white particles

01:20 of the milk out,

01:22 then the pure, the transparent part remains.

01:25 Then when it's transparent like this,

01:28 light can travel

01:30 and then we can visualize inner structures.

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