It was a good year for medical research as a team of neurobiologists at New York University conducted experiments that showed human non-brain cells are capable of carrying out memory functions. They engineered non-brain cells to glow when a “memory gene” was turned on after exposure to a learning experience and found the cells responded in nearly the same way as a brain cell. Their findings suggest various body parts may respond to stimuli without instructions from the brain.
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