May 2020

Making Memories

The fundamental cognitive process is revealing itself to science

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Features

How Time Is Encoded in Memories

How Manipulating Rodent Memories Can Elucidate Neurological Function

What Do New Neurons in the Brains of Adults Actually Do?

Reading Frames

Where Do Our Memories Live?

Scientist to Watch

Daniel Colón-Ramos Reveals the Mysteries of Worms’ Memories

The Literature

Light Enables Long-Term Memory Maintenance in Fruit Flies

How Mice Forget to Be Afraid

Once Is Enough For Long-Term Memory Formation in Bees

Foundations

Savant in the Limelight, 1988–2009

Infographics

Infographic: How the Brain Keeps Track of Time in Memories

Infographic: Messing with a Mouse’s Memory

Infographic: Fashionable Detector

Infographic: How Adult-Born Neurons Integrate into the Brain

Infographic: Quick Learners

Profiles

Unravelling Memory’s Mysteries: A Profile of Elizabeth Buffalo

Modus Operandi

Wrist-Mounted Air Pollution Detector

Notebook

Study Probes Brain Activity in Survivors of Paris Terror Attacks

Cannabis Increases Propensity for False Memories

Can Zapping the Brain Boost Memory?

How Immune Cells Make the Brain Forget

Contributors

Contributors

Critic at Large

Is Modern Media Destroying Our Memories?

Bio Business

Early Detection of Dementia with Smart Devices

Editorial

Memory in a Time of Quarantine

Speaking of Science

Ten Minute Sabbatical

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Memory-enhancing neural networks may also drive involuntary musical loops in the brain.

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Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

Genome Modeling and Design: From the Molecular to Genome Scale

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Screening 3D Brain Cell Cultures for Drug Discovery

DNA and pills, conceptual illustration of the relationship between genetics and therapeutic development

Multiplexing PCR Technologies for Biopharmaceutical Research

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