The repeated impacts experienced in one season of playing high school football can do significant damage to an athlete’s brain, according to a recent study published by the Journal of Neurotrauma.

Radiology and biochemistry researchers at UC-San Diego say they have figured out how to dissolve and encapsulate metals inside fluorine-based droplets, in the process synthesizing a new cell-labeling probe that can, in in effect, “greatly amp up the MRI signal” for potential use in in immunotherapy, inflammation treatment and other emerging clinical applications.