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Retro Virus
We Have Concerns
English - February 05, 2018 08:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.9K ratingsComedy News comedy culture gadgets games internet news pop science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Inside the brain, proteins don’t stick around longer than a few minutes. And yet, our memories can hang on for our entire lifetime. Recently, an international collaboration of researchers discovered something strange about a protein called Arc. This is essential to long-term memory formation. What they found was that it has very similar properties to how a virus infects its host. Jeff and Anthony consider what life could have been like without the ability to remember.
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