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Textbooks may have misdrawn this basic brain structure for 100 years

Written and edited by the WorldPing NewsdeskPublished Updated Original reporting: ScienceDaily

What happened

Scientists discovered that brain-cell axons may not be smooth tubes as textbooks have shown for more than a century, but instead naturally resemble strings of tiny pearls.

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  • Reported by ScienceDaily and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:54:28 UTC.

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