Epigenetics Implicated In Fear Response

In a new study published in Nature Neuroscience, scientists describe how mice taught to fear the smell of acetophenone (1-phenylethanone) passed that fear on to subsequent generations of mice. In addition, the offspring of parents exposed to the smell had more neurons that detect acetophenone than control animals. It was found that the gene that codes […]

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