It's a trap‪!‬ This Week in Neuroscience

Jason visits the TWiN studio to explain Arc Capsid Bearing Any RNAs (ACBARs), virus-like capsids that transfer genetic information between neurons.
Hosts: Andres Bendesky, Jason Shepherd, and Vincent Racaniello
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Links for this episode Arc is a repurposed retrotransposon gag protein that mediates intercellular RNA transfer (Cell) Drosophila gag-like ARC1 (Cell) Letters read on TWiN #4 Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks! Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees.
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