X-Message-Number: 17647 From: "John de Rivaz" <> Subject: memories are made of this Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 16:08:42 +0100 Anyone else spot the article in last week's New Scientist, 15 Sept 2001, p25, unfortunately not on the web, about a theory concerning long term memory being encoded in DNA? As references, the following were given Further reading: "DNA recombination as a possible mechanism in declarative memory" by Sandra Pena de Ortiz and Yuri Arshavsky, Journal of Neuroscience Research, vol 63, p 72 (2001) "Memory and DNA" by Axel Dietrich and Willem Been, Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol 208, p 145 (2001) "Memory and molecular turnover" by Francis Crick, Nature, vol 312, p 101 (1984) -- Sincerely, John de Rivaz: http://www.deRivaz.com my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors' report, an autobio and various other projects: http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt http://www.autopsychoice.com - http://www.cryonics-europe.org - http://www.porthtowan.com Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=17647