Using a complex genetic approach, U.S. and Chinese researchers believe they have done just that in mice, but the feat is far from being tested on humans.
Study co-author Joe Z. Tsien, co-director of the Brain & Behavior Discovery Institute at the Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, says the "work reveals a molecular mechanism of how [memory deletion] can be done quickly and without doing damage to brain cells."
The finding is published in the Oct. 23 issue of Neuron.
Humans plagued by painful memories have long wished...
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- Pericles_Lewnes
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No need for research, in the US powerful subliminal messages from the tv and media, makes americans forget every four years who they voted for four years before.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind here we come...
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...if mice are running things....per Douglas Adams...Hitchhikers Guide.....there are going to be some scientists with sore asses....and be sure to give the Dolphins extra fish......Golden Ruler.....Johnnie Hargrave
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- Relevations
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Isn't that what alcohol is for?
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(jager-mice-ster) Jägermeister!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Was Charlie Kaufman a research partner?
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- majormajor
- 1 year ago
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Uh oh, more U.S. Gov... I mean, UFO abuductions
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- telekinesis
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Yes, I can see how this could be usefull. However, we base our actions, reactions, all learned behavior on memories...how will this work. I don't think we know enough to play with this...
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- yaget1chance
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please erase all of my memories from 2000-2008.
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- satanskidney
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rm -rf /home/santanskidney/brain/memory.200*
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- telekinesis
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If they go too far they could wipe out our entire minds! Alient abtuctees are going to be up in arms now.
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I need this!
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I believe there are some memories that make people worse than they actually are. It would be cool to remove those.
But at the same time I find this more along the lines of something that will be abused (if it's possible for humans). Yeah.
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How odd, I'm right now writing a paper on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind for my Ethics in Emerging Technologies class. Thanks for this article; it'll definitely put that extra mmph in my paper! Crazy stuff.
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Ok, now just look directly at the little red light...
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- frank_runyeon
- 1 year ago
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I love mice
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Hmm ... if they can make us forget specific things that happened, the obvious next step would be to make us remember things that didn't happen. There's something oddly gratifying about seeing science fiction come true, even if it's scary.
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Wow this is an amazingly frightening discovery.
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Dear Scientists,
Please erase the 1973 ABA finals from my mind!
Thanks!
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- ArtisGilmoreHOF
- 1 year ago
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I think it is cool that the mice could tell the scientists they could not remember...............
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I think it is absurd that animals are being cut up and killed for this research. What purpose does it serve? Why is it worth the suffering and deaths of so many animals?
We have memories for a reason. The fact that they even suggest that we should do this to humans is ridiculous.
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- animalia_libero
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This would be beneficial in removing any knowledge of our country's history, thus enabling our politicians to move "..towards a more perfect (global) union". It could also help erase memories of Him who died on the cross, thereby, sealing our own fate and subjecting ourselves to our messianic tyrant kings.
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Since depression is a disorder based on ruminating on negative memories, this should be fairly interesting.
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can you make my mind spotless of unwanted memories. ignorance is bliss.
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"erase undesirable memories". But not specifically undesirable to the person of which they are being removed.
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- TopScruffy
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