A University of Minnesota Twin Cities-led team has developed a new technique that allows scientists and engineers to, for the first time, visualize mRNA molecules in the brains of living mice. The research reveals new insights into how memories are formed and stored in the brain and could provide scientists with new information about diseases such as Alzheimer’s.
The paper is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
There is still a lot of mystery surrounding the process of how memory is physically created and stored in the brain. It is well known that mRNA — a type of RNA involved in the creation of proteins — is produced during the process of forming and storing memories, but the technology for studying this process on the cellular level has been limited. Previous studies have often involved dissecting mice in order to examine their brains.
A team…
