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Yvonne Carts-Powell

Using laser light to program memories.

 

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Memories live in our brains, but researchers don’t really know how they form or where they are stored. Researchers at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) are helping to illuminate the problem: Scientists recently reported using a flash of laser light to program the memories of fruit flies (Cell 139, 405).

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