Articles by Jon Lieff MD

The Plant "Brain" 3: Defense, Avoiding Predators, Attracting Insects, Timed Gene Synthesis

Human Brain and Mind 3: the Limits of the Senses, Top Down Control of Perception

The Plant “Brain” 2: Communication among Plants and with Other Species

The Plant “Brain”: The Dodder Attacks

Human Brain and Mind 2: More Neuroplasticity

The Microbe “Brain” – Sensory, Neuronal, Attributes of Microbes

What is the Mind? 5 Theoretical Possibilities

Human Brain and Mind

Social Microbes

Complex Machinery in the Neuron, Vesicle Budding and Fusion, Transcription, and More

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Singlet Fission May Solve The Solar Efficiency Problem

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Paleontology Challenge: Zombie Fossils

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