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"THIS STUNNING FINDING, suggesting that some memory may be stored outside of the head and imprinted on the new brain during regeneration, led to a myriad of subsequent associative learning studies." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

MOLECULAR OUTSOURCING. "The eventual outsourcing of metabolic functions (including the replication of nucleic acids) to more competent protein enzymes would complete the journey from an abiotic world to the molecular biology we see today." http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ar200325v View in LinkedIn

THE PUBLICATION. "Memory transfer through cannibalism in planarians." JV McConnell, 1962. The publication that provoked avalanche of interest in the subject. Eating the professor enhanced learning. https://lnkd.in/d2sqt4F View in LinkedIn

THE BOMBSHELL. "Nearly 55 years ago it was demonstrated that planarians could be trained to learn a task, and following amputation of the head, the animals regenerating from the original tail sections remembered the original training." (JV McConnell). http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

METAMORPHOSIS BRAINS. "Studies have identified several insect organisms in which memories survive the drastic reorganization of metamorphosis." This defies thinking about. http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

British power generation achieves first ever coal-free day https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/21/britain-set-for-first-coal-free-day-since-the-industrial-revolution?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

NEW HEAD REGENERATION. "Adult stem cell populations (neoblasts) underlie their remarkable regenerative abilities, and whole worms can regenerate from only a small proportion of the adult worm: a cut off (or damaged) head is rebuilt perfectly within few days." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

MODEL SYSTEM. "Free-living, planarian flatworms represent the ‘first’ class of organism to have a centralized brain with true synaptic transmission, and share the majority of neurotransmitters that occur in vertebrate brains." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

IMMINENT ISSUES. "For example, what happens to the personality and mental content of an adult patient with decades of stored memories when their brain is repopulated by the descendants of implanted stem cells." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn

CYBERNETICS. "The intersection of these two fundamental processes has implications for basic neurobiology and engineering of the brain–body interface, for the synthetic bioengineering of cybernetic systems and for the biomedicine of degenerative brain disease." http://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/20/3799 View in LinkedIn