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Animal People, Inc. posted an update 5 years, 11 months ago
Oh. the horrors that now await myriad species of animals in laboratories: “The team’s findings are a long way still from being applied to people and how our memories form. But Dr. Glanzman hopes others will try to replicate the experiments in other animals, potentially opening the door one day to understanding how RNA and genetic tags on DNA could be involved in memory.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/15/science/memory-transfer-snails.html?hpw&rref=science&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-wellScientists Made Snails Remember Something That Never Happened to ThemWhen scientists injected RNA from the brain cells of trained snails to untrained snails, the animals behaved as if they remembered the trained snails’ experiences.