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Forever in your prime

Anything I find interesting about how to slow, prevent, and reverse aging.

Friday, March 23, 2007

Making memories that last a lifetime

Neurobiologists have discovered a mechanism by which the constantly changing brain retains memories�from that dog bite to that first kiss. They have found that the brain co-opts the same machinery by which cells stably alter their genes to specialize during embryonic development.