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General mechanism for brain memory and immunological memory is proposed. Immunological memory could involve the transfer of information for the synthesis of the active site of an antibody, by an antigen-RNA complex, to a potentially immune cell. This transfer would involve the reversal of the path of information from DNA to RNA to protein which occurs during protein synthesis.
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MEKLER, L. Mechanism of Biological Memory. Nature 215, 481–484 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/215481a0
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