Neuroscientists have uncovered a new mechanism for memory formation, and it involves changes in the structure of your DNA. If you were asked to picture a molecule of DNA, chances are you would ...

Breaks in DNA are typically associated with harmful conditions, and the cell has ways to repair this damage. But it's been suggested that double stranded breaks (DSBs) are an essential part of the ...

Northwestern University researchers have uncovered a previously unknown property of colloidal crystals, highly ordered three-dimensional arrays of nanoparticles. The team engineered colloidal crystals ...

An international collaborative research team, including scientists from UQ's Queensland Brain Institute (QBI), has discovered a novel mechanism underlying memory involving rapid changes in a specific ...

Researchers see structural changes in genetic material that allow memories to strengthen when remembered. More than a century ago, the zoologist Richard Semon coined the term “engram” to designate the ...

A team of researchers has discovered that the memory of the immune system relies on characteristic epigenetic features and a specific 3D arrangement of the DNA in the nucleus of memory cells, allowing ...

Schematic showing a single DNA duplex bridging two gold electrodes (yellow) patterned on a silicon nitride substrate (green). The setup allows measurement of electrical conductance as metal ions bind ...

A new study has suggested that two processes that are usually thought of as harmful: DNA damage and inflammation, may actually be processes that are required whenever we form long-term memories. Brain ...

A crack team of nanoengineers and biologists have created a non-volatile memory device out of salmon DNA and silver nanoparticles. The memory is write-once-read-many (WORM), just like an optical disc.

Josh Hihath is trying to fuse biology and electrical engineering and to build new types of electronic memory based on DNA. Hihath, professor in the UC Davis Department of Electrical and Computer ...

To quickly express genes needed for learning and memory, brain cells snap both strands of DNA in many more places and cell types than previously realized. The urgency to remember a dangerous ...

DNA quadruplex. Image by Thomas Splettstoesser, CC BY-SA 3.0, DNA quadruplex. Image by Thomas Splettstoesser, CC BY-SA 3.0, Back in 2017, Digital Journal ran a feature on a potential solution to the ...