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Let's not jump to conclusions. That guardian article is about a pre-print study that used frozen brain samples from a single tissue bank, and RNA sequencing was done on a single machine.

There's a lot of controversy around this[1], because contamination is possible and it's known that the blood brain barrier weakens with age. The sample are all from older individuals.

[1] https://www.news-medical.net/health/Is-there-a-brain-microbi...



Contamination is possible, but it's hard to explain the results that way. Definitely needs replication, of course.

I don't see the point of the samples all being from older individuals. Even if it exclusively occurs in older individuals (unlikely), it would still mean that the blood-brain barrier is not 100% effective (which we already know to be true).




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