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Video Reveals the Molecular Basis of Memory

A major advance in the use of microscopes for scientific investigation allows scientists to watch the brain create memories. 
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Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have been able to glimpse molecular interactions that occur when the brain creates memory by using a microscope that achieves “resolution never before possible in living cells.”


Their findings, published in the journal Nature, mark “a major advance in the use of microscopes for scientific investigation.”

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