• Email Bluesky Facebook LinkedIn Reddit Whatsapp X Mice were given acetate and then performed tasks that tested their memory • Credit: fergregory/iStock via Getty A common metabolic by-product produced when the body breaks down alcohol, glucose and food high in fibre can enhance memory, at least in females, according to a study in mice1 • In the study, published inScience Signaling, scientists injected acetate into mice then got the animals to perform two memory tasks that rely on the dorsal hippocampus, the brain’s memory‑forming region • The team introduced the mice to two matching objects and let them interact with these objects for 10 minutes • Twenty-four hours later, the mice were exposed to the objects again, but one object had been moved to a new location, says co-author Gabor Egervari, an epigeneticist at Washington University in St • If the mouse had an intact memory, it remembered that the object was in a different location yesterday, he says

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