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Re:Evidence of the body’s waste system in the human brain by amacbride on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @11:57PM (#15398164)
You're probably thinking of the so-called "glymphatic system" that was in the news a few years back. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glymphatic_system
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Re:Evidence of the body’s waste system in the human brain by ruytlm on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @12:23AM (#15398234)
Yep, that's exactly the one I was thinking of. Thank you!
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Re:Evidence of the body’s waste system in the human brain by tim333 on Wednesday October 04, 2017 @04:28AM (#15399033)
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid#Circulatio...

with a nice MRI of fluid being pumped around. Though I think a different system to the one in this article.

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