Tracking how memories forms
In the latest issue of Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN 92 (7), 34-35), Erin Schuman from the MPI for Brain Research comments on the research of her colleague Robert H. Singer at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York.
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Robert Singer recently published two papers in Science (1, 2) on tracking mRNA in the neurons in real-time. Using novel imaging techniques and markers, the researchers could gain more insight on how memories are formed.