Sluggish memories might be captured via RNA. The molecule, when taken from one sea slug and injected into another, appeared to transfer a rudimentary memory between the two, a new study suggests.

1 × 10 6 peripheral blood blast cells from CombitTA-Slug leukaemias were injected subcutaneously into 16 40-day old nude mice. All 16 mice developed progressive tumours within 4–7 weeks of ...

The slugs about to be injected don’t dodge out of the way. “Maybe they’re preoccupied with inserting their own stylet,” Lange says. The stylets, throbbing in slow pulses, stay inserted for ...

Science may never know what wistful memories play on the mind of the California sea hare, a 30cm-long hermaphrodite marine slug ... with a swift injection, managed to transfer such a memory ...

But I have to say I'm not convinced. In the paper, published in eNeuro, UCLA researchers Alexis Bédécarrats and collagues report that they extracted RNA from the neurons of sea slugs (Aplysia) after ...

So, during sex, each slug gets a dose of sperm in the usual place, and an injection of prostate fluid just above its eyes. This goes on for just over 40 minutes. “You may imagine I was quite ...

Sea slugs that had received repeated electrical shocks learned to expect them again--until researchers gave the slugs an injection that returned them to blissful ignorance. The fellow above is Aplysia ...

Slugs were the inspiration for a new kind of ... It could be used as a patch on the skin or as a liquid injected into wounds deeper in the body. There are also ideas about using it as a way ...

They’re also developing a version of the adhesive that can be injected into hard to reach places that need patching up. Inspired by an unassuming slug under the rocks in your garden, it seems ...