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Published online 16 August 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070813-10
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Long-term memory gets wiped
ZIP protein makes rats forget a month-old memory.
Scientists have erased a long-term memory in the brains of laboratory rats, offering insight into how such memories are stored.
Yadin Dudai and Reut Shema of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, trained rodents to associate a particular smell with illness.
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