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Over two hours, a rat embryonic microglial cell (green, marked with asterisk) engulfs a neighboring brain stem cell (red, marked with arrow). Once engulfed, the stem cell appears yellow. Researchers think that microglia gobble up neural stem cells to prune brain size during development. Credit: Cunningham, et al. The Journal of Neuroscience 2013. Reprinted with permission.

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