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Study challenges long-held beliefs about the roles of short-term and long-term memories

by Kat J. McAlpine,  Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Would it surprise you to learn that short-term motor memories that last less than a minute play a bigger role than long-term ones in relearning movements after you’ve forgotten them? If so, you’re not alone: the Harvard John...

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New research challenges long-held beliefs about limb regeneration

TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY Ken Muneoka is no stranger to disrupting the field of regeneration; for example, in a 2019 ground-breaking publication in Nature, the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (CVMBS) professor proved for the first time that joint regeneration in mammals was possible. Now, his team is again challenging other centuries-old beliefs about the...