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TRACE RECOVERY. “Memory engram storage and retrieval. Surprisingly, direct optogenetic activation of amnesic engram cells in mice resulted in successful retrieval of the ostensibly lost contextual fear memory.” https://lnkd.in/dkkp6td View in LinkedIn

FALSE TRACES. “We Can Implant Entirely False Memories.” https://lnkd.in/d__Xr47 View in LinkedIn

‘WHAT IF doctors and researchers could attack PTSD at the source: actually implanting or erasing specific memories in a person's brain?” https://lnkd.in/dbijb5P View in LinkedIn

NEW PARADIGM. "This Botanical Briefing provides an overview of a new mechanistic explanation linking atmospheric CO2 decline with the delayed widespread appearance of megaphylls, and ideas concerning its molecular genetic basis and the resulting global environmental and evolutionary consequences." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

IMPLANTING MEMORIES. “Researchers said the ability to implant a false memory was a scientific milestone. "We would have every reason to expect this would happen in humans exactly as it happened in mice." (Ramirez et al.). https://lnkd.in/diVvWVr View in LinkedIn

THIRD SURPRISE. "Thirdly, the tiny deeply incised megaphylls of the rare early-Devonian plant Eophyllophyton bellum from Chinese rocks shows that plants had the capacity to produce a simple megaphyll. Why were plants unable to release this morphogenetic potential?" http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

RESTORING MEMORIES. “If your brain is a library and the books are memories, does Alzheimer’s eat away at the librarian so you no longer have access to those memories, or does it eat away at the books themselves? What it seems to be is it’s actually possible to go in and artificially restore memories that were thought to be gone.” https://lnkd.in/dmPXzVD View in LinkedIn

SECOND SURPRISE. "Secondly, the same interval marks an unparalleled burst of evolutionary innovation in the history of plant life, which witnessed the rise of trees from herbaceous ancestors, and the evolution of complex life cycles, including the seed habit." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn

FIRST SURPRISE. "Surprise in the delayed appearance of a seemingly simple developmental modification is 3-fold. First, palaeontological evidence shows that the structural framework necessary for assembling a simple laminated leaf blade (meristem, vasculature, cuticle and epidermis) was in place long before the advent of large megaphylls." http://aob.oxfordjournals.org/content/96/3/345.full.pdf View in LinkedIn