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TWiN 31: HIV-1 co-receptor shapes window for memory linking

This Week in Neuroscience

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CCR5 - A Gene Target for Memory

CCR5 is actually the gene that the CRISPR baby got knocked out on. The scientist subsequently was put in jail because of massive ethical breach. But I look at some people about 10% of the human populations lack CCR5. And it suggests that chemokine are also important for memory, which is quite unexpected.

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