The transcriptional profiles in the brains of prairie voles changed after a long breakup, revealing a molecular shift that might help them cope with the loss of a partner.

In rats, motherhood leaves long-term biological signatures in a brain region that is crucial for learning and memory.

Scientists established an epigenetic mouse model for glioma, providing insight into how epigenetics can initiate cancer.

A new platform for screening astrocyte reactivity helps researchers uncover potential therapeutic interventions to treat neurodegenerative conditions.

The common fluorescent marker GFP traveled a long road to take its popular place in molecular biology today.

With the help of directed evolution, scientists inch closer to developing viral vectors that can cross the human blood-brain barrier to deliver gene therapy.

Repairing damaged DNA appears to drive aging by causing the loss of epigenetic information, but restoring that information reverses such effects, a study finds.

A gene essential for information storage in the brain engages an autoregulatory feedback loop to consolidate memory.

Genes activated in new environments include those used during development.