Lifelong learning is made possible by recycling of histones, study says

Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 04:00 in Biology & Nature

Neurons are a limited commodity; each of us goes through life with essentially the same set we had at birth. But these cells, whose electrical signals drive our thoughts, perceptions, and actions, are anything but static. They change and adapt in response to experience throughout our lifetimes, a process better known as learning.

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