{"id":202376,"date":"2024-12-25T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/microbes-have-memory-surprising-parallels-between-simple-microrganisms-and-sophisticated-neurons"},"modified":"2024-12-25T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2024-12-25T16:14:38","slug":"microbes-have-memory-surprising-parallels-between-simple-microrganisms-and-sophisticated-neurons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/microbes-have-memory-surprising-parallels-between-simple-microrganisms-and-sophisticated-neurons","title":{"rendered":"Microbes Have Memory: Surprising Parallels Between Simple Microrganisms and Sophisticated Neurons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RnHboG1ERlw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discovery draws surprising parallels between low-level organisms and sophisticated neurons; lays the groundwork for memory-capable biological systems.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biologists studying collectives of bacteria, or \u201cbiofilms,\u201d have discovered that these so-called simple organisms feature a robust capacity for memory.<\/p>\n<p>Working in the laboratory of University of California San Diego Professor G\u00fcrol S\u00fcel, Chih-Yu Yang, Maja Bialecka-Fornal and their colleagues found that bacterial cells stimulated with light remembered the exposure hours after the initial stimulus. The researchers were able to manipulate the process so that memory patterns emerged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovery draws surprising parallels between low-level organisms and sophisticated neurons; lays the groundwork for memory-capable biological systems. Biologists studying collectives of bacteria, or \u201cbiofilms,\u201d have discovered that these so-called simple organisms feature a robust capacity for memory. Working in the laboratory of University of California San Diego Professor G\u00fcrol S\u00fcel, Chih-Yu Yang, Maja Bialecka-Fornal and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202376","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}