Scientists Researching Genes that Turn off Learning and Memory

Medical Daily
September 29, 2010

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Deleting a certain gene in mice can make them smarter by unlocking a mysterious region of the brain considered to be relatively inflexible, scientists at Emory University School of Medicine have found.

Mice with a disabled RGS14 gene are able to remember objects they’d explored and learn to navigate mazes better than regular mice, suggesting that RGS14′s presence limits some forms of learning and memory.

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The results were published online this week in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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