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Feb 01, 2001

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A University of Calgary Faculty of Medicine research team has found that exposure to mercury causes degeneration of brain neurons in animals. When U of C professors Fritz Lorscheider and Naweed Syed co-authored their research paper on the effects of mercury on neurons, one of the most compelling proofs they had was a five-minute video that showed those effects. The video combined state-of-the art animation and time-lapse videography to irrefutably demonstrate their findings. When Lorscheider submitted the paper to the British journal NeuroReport, which eventually published it, he added the video as an accompanying document, making it one of the few times that a piece of animation was subjected to the peer-review process.


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