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Locating a switch to tell the brain when to learn and when to remember
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Locating a switch to tell the brain when to learn and when to remember

by Pasteur Institute Virtual reality environment seen by mice. Credit: Ruy Gómez-Ocádiz, Christoph Schmidt-Hieber, Institut Pasteur The memory system alternates between periods of learning and remembering. These two functions are controlled by different neural circuits. Using an animal model, scientists from the Institut Pasteur recently identified a neural signal in the hippocampus, a brain region...

Study looks at how the human microbiome varies with location
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Study looks at how the human microbiome varies with location

by Lewis Taylor,  University of Oregon Credit: CC0 Public Domain Home is where the microbes are. That’s one takeaway from newly published research by an interdisciplinary University of Oregon team that found a shared home environment to be the strongest predictor of human microbiome similarity or the commonalities between the communities of microbes that live within...