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The Lasker Foundation has named James Fujimoto ’79, SM ’81, PhD ’84, the Elihu Thomson Professor in Electrical Engineering and principal investigator in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), a recipient of the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Med
MIT Professor James Fujimoto and MIT affiliates David Huang and Eric Swanson have won the 2023 Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for groundbreaking work on optical coherence tomography (OCT), which allows rapid detection of diseases of the retina, among other medical applications.
Young babies and newborn mice can naturally heal damage to the bones that form the top of the skull, but this ability is lost in adults.
Researchers who previously discovered channels in the skull have found that cerebrospinal fluid can exit the brain through these channels to reach the skull's bone marrow, which can detect and respond to infection or injury
Cerebrospinal fluid, also known as 'brain water', can exit the brain and enter the bone marrow of the skull through these channels, according to research led by a group at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).