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Genetic Switch Could Restore Memory

Posted May 07, 2010 1:10 PM

From Wired Top Stories:

Scientists have discovered what could be a key to why older mice, and possibly older people, lose their memory. The research suggests that the genetic changes responsible could be reversed.

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05/08/2010 1:37 PM

Just read an article in, I believe, Wired Magazine describing just how much trouble comparing Mice to Humans has caused.....
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05/09/2010 2:42 PM

I know, now if I could only remember where I put that article or that switch?

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05/11/2010 6:55 AM

Forgotten, didn't care or masochistic mice?

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