A new study reports that immune memory may contribute to neurodegenerative diseases.

Mice who get less attention from their mothers have more copies of a common retrotransposon in the genomes of their hippocampal neurons.

The variation may help explain why stocked salmon don’t fare as well in the ocean.

Researchers use the technique to turn on Oct4 or Sox2 in mouse embryonic fibroblasts and convert them into pluripotent cells. 

Researchers map learning-induced chromatin alterations in mouse brain cells, and find that many affect autism-associated genes.

Emerging technologies help researchers draw mechanistic links between metabolism and epigenetic modification of DNA.

After an initial wounding, genes needed for repair remain ready for action.

New technologies reveal the dynamic changes in mouse and human embryos during the first week after fertilization.

The switch from maternal factors involves dynamic reprogramming of the zygotic genome.

Meet some of the people featured in the November 2017 issue of The Scientist.