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Can Single Cells Learn?
Can Single Cells Learn?
A controversial idea from the mid-20th century is attracting renewed attention from researchers developing theories for how cognition arises with or without a brain.
A controversial idea from the mid-20th century is attracting renewed attention from researchers developing theories for how cognition arises with or without a brain.
synapse, cell & molecular biology, neuroscience
Aggressive Cancers Feed Off the Brain’s Nerves
Emily Makowski | Sep 20, 2019 | 2 min read
Three studies show that tumor cells can behave like neurons.
RNA Moves a Memory From One Snail to Another
Ashley Yeager | May 14, 2018 | 4 min read
Injecting molecules from a sea slug that received tail shocks into one that didn’t made the recipient animal behave more cautiously.
Neuron Signaling Persists, Faintly, Even When Key Presynaptic Proteins Are Absent
Ben Andrew Henry | Nov 1, 2016 | 2 min read
Results from experiments in mice revise a long-held hypothesis that certain protein scaffolds are needed for synaptic activity.
Exit Strategy
Hayley Dunning | Nov 1, 2012 | 2 min read
Large RNA-protein packets use a novel mechanism to escape the cell nucleus.