The impact of molecular biology on neuroscience

How our brains work is one of the major unsolved problems of biology This p aper describes some of the techniques of molecular biology that are already being used to study the brains of animals. Mainly as a result of the human genome project many new techniques will soon become available which could decisively influence the progress of neuroscience. I suggest that neuroscie ntists should tell molecular biologists what their difficulties are, in the hope that this will stimulate the production of useful new biological tool s.