‘It’s kind of the holy grail of what is memory’: Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez studies the physical basis of memory in a quest to manipulate it
In 2013, MIT neuroscientists Steve Ramirez and Xu Liu Ramirez says we need a wide discussion about the ethics of memory of manipulation to understand the potential risks of misuse before we have the technology. (Image credit: Marina133/Getty Images) HO: In your experiments, you’ve used optogenetics to manipulate memories in mice, but that technique isn’t…
