In this study, the scientists simulated the process of spaced learning by examining two types of non-brain human cells — one from nerve tissue and one from kidney tissue — in a laboratory setting.

These cells were exposed to varying patterns of chemical signals, akin to the exposure of brain cells to neurotransmitter patterns when we learn new information.

The intriguing part? These non-brain cells also switched on a “memory gene” – the same gene that brain cells activate when they detect information patterns and reorganize their connections to form memories.

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[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Read something like that in an old science fiction novel.

Old man's brain is placed in a young woman's body. Her brain was destroyed but most of her memories live on in her body.

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Robert Heinlein, I Will Fear No Evil

"Elderly billionaire Johann Sebastian Bach Smith is being kept alive through medical support and decides to have his brain transplanted into a new body. He advertises an offer of a million dollars for the donation of a body from a brain-dead patient. Smith omits to place any restriction on the sex of the donor, so when his beautiful young female secretary, Eunice Branca, is killed, her body is used—without his knowledge and to the distress of some of those around him."

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

You can tell it's a really old book because they talk about $1 million like it's a lot of money.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I'd read that novel.

Old man hell bent on world domination, but really wants Johnny in math class to ask him to the dance on Friday.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

"I Will Fear No Evil, " Robert Heinlein.

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the guy that got a heart transplant and took up smoking like the original owner of the heart and started dating the original owners ex.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was that a fictional work or actual patient?

[–] bizarroland@fedia.io 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

From memory it was an actual patient but I wasn't easily able to find it from a quick search.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I'll take your word for it, because nobody ever lied on the interwebs.

[jk, thnaks for the response]