Scientists Create Mice With Super Memory
Researchers at the Univ. of Georgia, have been able to identify critical genes used in memory and manipulate them to turn them off, so the memory of mice is impaired, or enhance them.
The smart mouse named “Doogie” (after Doogie Houser MD), is a mouse that over expresses the smart gene in the hippocampus, a part of the brain used for memory and which is destroyed by by Alzheimer’s disease .Using advanced brain monitoring techniques, the researchers are starting to decode how memories are stored and retrieved.
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