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Retro Virus
FromWe Have Concerns
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Feb 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Inside the brain, proteins don’t stick around longer than a few minutes. And yet, our memories can hang on for our entire lifetime. Recently, an international collaboration of researchers discovered something strange about a protein called Arc. This is essential to long-term memory formation. What they found was that it has very similar properties to how a virus infects its host. Jeff and Anthony consider what life could have been like without the ability to remember.
Released:
Feb 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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