Yuuki Onishi

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A worm's brain circuit erases one smell while keeping another

First author of the 2026 Current Biology study

A nematode worm can learn two smells, then forget one while remembering the other. Researchers at Kyushu University traced that selective erasure to a peptide signal, NLP-47, and a circuit running from AWC sensory neurons through AIZ interneurons to the AWA neurons that store the memory.

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