The great brain hack

• Autores: Douglas Heaven
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2979, 2014, págs. 8-9
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Tracing how the brain is wired is a great first step but to find out how this linking pattern produces a particular behavior humans need to be able to see how changing these links affects brain function. This is what a team led by William Schafer at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge UK is attempting. Schafer's team injected DNA that codes for their protein into the gonads of Caenorhabditis elegans nematode worms. When the next generation hatched, some worms expressed the new genes, giving rise to extra neural connections.