{"id":192365,"date":"2024-07-05T10:23:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-study-reveals-molecular-secret-to-lifelong-memories"},"modified":"2024-07-05T10:23:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T15:23:50","slug":"new-study-reveals-molecular-secret-to-lifelong-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/new-study-reveals-molecular-secret-to-lifelong-memories","title":{"rendered":"New Study Reveals Molecular Secret to Lifelong Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-study-reveals-molecular-secret-to-lifelong-memories.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>New research identifies the molecule KIBRA as a critical \u201cglue\u201d in stabilizing long-term memories by maintaining synaptic strength, offering insights into memory persistence despite ongoing cellular changes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whether it\u2019s a first-time visit to a zoo or when we learned to ride a bicycle, we have memories from our childhoods kept well into adult years. But what explains <em>how<\/em> these memories last nearly an entire lifetime?<\/p>\n<p>A new study in the journal <em> <i>Science Advances<\/i><\/em>, conducted by a team of international researchers, has uncovered a biological explanation for long-term memories. It centers on the discovery of the role of a molecule, KIBRA, that serves as a \u201cglue\u201d to other molecules, thereby solidifying memory formation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research identifies the molecule KIBRA as a critical \u201cglue\u201d in stabilizing long-term memories by maintaining synaptic strength, offering insights into memory persistence despite ongoing cellular changes. Whether it\u2019s a first-time visit to a zoo or when we learned to ride a bicycle, we have memories from our childhoods kept well into adult years. But [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}