A piece of brain in a test tube knows how to remember what is happening
The mouse hippocampus, each cell of which synthesized its fluorescent protein (more precisely, three proteins, the combination of which gave all these colors). The picture is Tamily Weissman. The mouse was received - Jean Livet and Ryan Draft, Harvard University. Neurobioologists managed to prove that neurons isolated from the brain are able to remember information. For the first time, the effect of learning was shown not on a living animal, but “in a test tube”, on a fragment of nervous tissue.