# 2018 Highlights: Capsid mRNA Interneural Communication, Bacteria "Fishing" For DNA With Neural-Like Appendage

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**Post date:** [December 31, 2018, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.numenta.org/t/2018-highlights-capsid-mrna-interneural-communication-bacteria-fishing-for-dna-with-neural-like-appendage/5126/1 "2018-12-31T23:02:30Z")

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This is looking like a neuroscience game-changer, we need to know about:

> **[The Neuronal Gene Arc Encodes a Repurposed Retrotransposon Gag Protein that...](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867417315040)**
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> The neuronal gene Arc is essential for long-lasting information storage in the mammalian brain, mediates various forms of synaptic plasticity, and has…

[More](https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Neuronal-Gene-%3Cce%3Aitalic%3EArc%3C%2Fce%3Aitalic%3E-a-Gag-Pastuzyn-Day/9274ad712b5c55cd20df4a46d3f172968e0dbcd9)

And when you thought simple bacteria were not very animal-like:

> **[For The First Time, Scientists Have Seen Bacteria "Fishing" For DNA From Dead...](https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-scientists-have-seen-bacteria-fishing-for-dna-from-dead-friends)**
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> Bacteria are slippery little suckers. They evolve rapidly, developing resistance to antibiotics and therefore becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.

For more reading on this topic here are about 5,390 results for (brain cell equivalent to pili though not necessarily same function) Neuronal cilia, published in 2018 alone:

[https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as\_ylo=2018&q=Neuronal+cilia](https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_ylo=2018&q=Neuronal+cilia)

Where do we even begin studying all that wonderful new information!!!

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