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No sunshine in a spotless mind?

Chemical-genetic manipulation of enzyme activity allows specific memory erasure in the mouse.

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  1. Cao, X. et al. Inducible and selective erasure of memories in the mouse brain via chemical-genetic manipulation. Neuron 60, 353–366 (2008).

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de Souza, N. No sunshine in a spotless mind?. Nat Methods 5, 994–995 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmeth1208-994b

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