Scientists Say They Have Transferred ‘Memories’ Between Snails

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Neuroscientists have long believed that memories are stored in the synapses, or junctions between the brain’s neurons. But UCLA neurobiologist David Glanzman subscribes to a different theory: the key to at least some memory storage, he thinks, is RNA, the cellular “messenger” that makes proteins and transmits DNA’s instructions to other parts of the cell.


https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-say-they-have-transferred-memories-between-snails-180969087/

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