Team isolates nerve cells involved in storing long term memory and gene proteins associated with them
Friday, February 10, 2012 - 10:02
in Biology & Nature
(Medical Xpress) -- A research team in Taiwan has succeeded in isolating two nerve cells in fruit fly brains that are believed to be the major players in allowing for the formation of long term memories. Furthermore, they’ve also found the genes that appear to be essential in creating related proteins that allow such memories to be saved. They have published a paper describing their work in Science.