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Cruchaga explained that similar investigations have relied on brain tissues collected postmortem, and therefore only provide information about the later stages of Alzheimer's.

“You are not responsible for everything that happens underneath you. You have to rely on the advice of internal and external experts,” she argued.

"The very ability to develop new products relies on knowing if the compounds that constitute them will crystallize, how many crystal forms are possible, and the stability of these various forms," said Tuckerman.

Just as artists relied on an intuitive understanding of neuroscience, neuroscientists have long documented their findings with artistic renderings of the brain, giving rise to key scientific observations.

Notably, both the dermatologists who examined the participants in-person and those who instead relied on clinical photos and dermoscopy alone detected 11 out of the 13 cases of skin cancer, including two melanomas.