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Does Our DNA Hold the Key to the Memories of Our Ancestors?
Remember the Assassin’s Creed franchise of games? Central to its story was the fact that a machine known as Animus would help a user relive their ancestor’s experiences by essentially decoding DNA archives. Using it, the protagonist Desmond Miles, would go back down his Assassin lineage and live cataclysmic events in his forbears’ lives. May it be Altair ibn-La Aahd in medieval Palestine or Ezio Auditore in Renaissance Italy, Miles could lucid dream though his DNA’s history. It makes quite an impressive fictional story but recent research has shown that Assassin’s Creed is way closer to reality than it seems.
Scientists at the Medical Sciences department of the Emory University in the US, managed to instill a revulsion of cherry blossoms into a set of mice which was replicated in subsequent generations. This was done by giving the mice small jolts of electric shocks whenever they approached a bunch of these flowers or came close to sniffing them.
