Zinc's role in the brain: Research gives insight into 50-year-old mystery
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 12:00
in Biology & Nature
Zinc plays a critical role in regulating how neurons communicate with one another, and could affect how memories form and how we learn. The new research, in the current issue of Neuron, was authored by Xiao-an Zhang, now a chemistry professor at the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC), and colleagues at MIT and Duke University.