Despite decades of research, relatively little is known
about the identity of RNA molecules that are transported as part of the
molecular process underpinning learning and memory.
Now, working together, scientists from the Florida campus of
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Columbia University and the University
of Florida, Gainesville, have developed a novel strategy for isolating and
characterizing a substantial number of RNAs transported from the cell-body of neuron
(nerve cell) to the synapse, the small gap separating neurons that enables cell
to cell communication.