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In mammals, microglial cells of the central nervous system are responsible for the normal clearance of dead brain cells. TAM-receptor proteins have now been found to mediate this function. See Letter p.240

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Figure 1: Neuron clearance.

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  1. Richard M. Ransohoff is in the Neuroimmunology group, Biogen, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA.,

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Ransohoff, R. Surprises from the sanitary engineers. Nature 532, 185–186 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17881

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