NeuroByte - Neurons talking like viruses,&is your mind's eye blind? - a podcast by Ian McLaughlin & Bo Allen

Bo and I discuss two science stories from the recent past. One is a discovery that neurons are capable of trading genetic material to one another directly - meaning, that one neuron can express a gene, transcribe it into RNA, and then send it to another neuron in which that gene wasn't expressed. Second, we discuss a possible condition termed "aphantasia", which describes a population of people who are entirely incapable of visualizing an imagined image.

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