
TWiN 12: A gene for short-term memory
This Week in Neuroscience
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You Can't Use What You Find in Mice, Right?
Mice lie because you cannot use what you find in mice and say, ah, it's the same in people. Often a drug or a vaccine that works in a mouse doesn't work in people. And this gene that was found in the study today that controls working memory, it might not control working memory in people. I mean, it's likely it does, but you can't assume that, right? You'd have to do some kind of experiments in people to show that. So that's what that means. We would just test the vaccine and mice and says, okay, give it to people. It's fine, but that's not the case.
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