By David Li, bostonese.com
There was another Lin working hard at Harvard’s Boston Children’s Hospital when Jeremy Lin was playing basketball for Harvard.
In December 2011, journal Science published a long research paper titled Npas4 Regulates a Transcriptional Program in CA3 Required for Contextual Memory Formation, which revealed the key controlling factor of the Npas4 gene for short-term memory converting into long-term memory in the brain. This paper helps further understanding of mechanism of how short-term memory turning into long-term memory in the brain, and will have far-reaching impact on the research and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease, amnesia and other neurological disorders.
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