In this study, the scientists simulated the process of spaced learning by examining two types of non-brain human cells — one from nerve tissue and one from kidney tissue — in a laboratory setting.

These cells were exposed to varying patterns of chemical signals, akin to the exposure of brain cells to neurotransmitter patterns when we learn new information.

The intriguing part? These non-brain cells also switched on a “memory gene” – the same gene that brain cells activate when they detect information patterns and reorganize their connections to form memories.

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    291 day ago

    Technically, a handgun also kills cancer in vivo. The problem is the cost to the host body.

    • bizarroland
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      121 day ago

      Okay but what you’re saying is if I hired a good enough marksman to shoot the cancer out of my body without killing me then that’s a good thing right?

      I mean, that’s basically what we do with gamma radiation and chemotherapy, just a little bit more ballistic, right?

        • Liz
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          613 hours ago

          Chemo only applies if it’s doped with a radionuclide, otherwise it’s just regular poison.