Scientists Just Transferred Memories From One Creature to Another
Sea snails picked up memories of another snail, in an experiment that hasn't been replicated since the 1960s.
By Laura Yan
May 19, 2018
Memory transfer between living creatures may sound like science fiction, but according to scientists at UCLA and a paper published ENeuro, it just became a tested reality: researchers successfully transferred molecules from brain cells of trained snails into untrained snails, giving the untrained snails the trained snails’ instincts, and seemingly their memories.
Researchers experimented on Aplysia californica sea snails, small organisms with large neurons that are relatively easy to work with. When researchers gave snails small electric shocks, they retracted their frilly siphons. Snails that had been shocked before retreated their siphons for longer than new snails.
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