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Scientists Able to Erase Memories in Mice
inventorspot.com - 10/24/2008
Scientists Able to Erase Memories in Mice
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Remember those movies that show devices used to erase the mind? Well, now researchers may be one step closer to that process. Scientists have now been able to remove certain memories from mice.

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Scientists Now Able To Memory Wipe Mice
GEARFUSE — ... Total Recall . Dr. Joe Z. Tsien, a brain scientist and co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia School, and his team were successful in removing new and old memories in mice by over-expressing a protein critical to brain cell communication just as the memory was recalled. What does this mean for humans? We’re all going to get mind-wiped and turned into a zombie army. That, or the Total Recall thing. Link [ via ]

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