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)

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