mossy

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"The numbers of mossy cells decline with aging and Alzheimer's disease," said Alexendra Moser, PhD, a project scientist in the Svendsen Lab and lead author of the study.

From Science Daily • Oct. 23, 2025

Fed from glaciers on Mount Shasta’s majestic slopes, Mossbrae Falls cascades out of lava tubes and down mossy cliffs into the Sacramento River in ethereal curtains of mist, sending rainbows dancing in all directions.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

These signals get transmitted through the granule cells' axons -- their arm-like extension, known as mossy fibers.

From Science Daily • Nov. 20, 2024

Highly theatrical, it saw the 35-year-old perform inside a mossy grotto, singing on top of a giant mechanical beetle and ascending a tree trunk in fairy wings.

From BBC • Nov. 15, 2024

I cried out in despair, but the sound fell upon the mossy earth, unheard.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein