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The unsolved science of general anaesthesia

A Grey Matter by Queensland Brain Institute

Jan 27, 202630:07Science & Medicine

Despite its everyday use in hospitals, scientists have yet to fully understand how general anaesthesia works. Professor Bruno van Swinderen began studying general anaesthesia using the tiny worm C.elegans in the 1990s. N...

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