Using cutting-edge gene editing technology researchers have engineered prairie voles with no oxytocin receptors. These notoriously monogamous mammals were thought to rely on oxytocin to form crucial ...

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The vital role of oxytocin—the “love hormone”—for social attachments is being called into question. More than forty years of pharmacological and behavioral research has pointed to oxytocin receptor ...

Ashleigh Papp: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I'm Ashleigh Papp. Monogamy in animals…and let's be honest, in humans too…is a funny thing. Only a few animal species have been lumped ...

Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, scientists at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Stanford Medicine have found that the receptor for the hormone oxytocin, which has ...

There's more to love than a single hormone. That's the conclusion of a study of prairie voles that were genetically altered to ignore signals from the "love hormone" oxytocin. The study, published in ...

Every once in a while we publish a story that makes the editorial team at Scientific American melt. When we were reviewing illustrations for “The Neurobiology of Love” about pair-bonding in prairie ...

Voles, often referred to as meadow mice or field mice, are small mouse-like rodents. They are brownish with dense fur and have short tails and small ears. Even though they are common and are active ...

Researchers make the case that prairie voles, small rodents that are found throughout the central United States and Canada, can be effectively used as animal models to further the study of clinical ...

Understanding population genetic structure provides insight into the evolutionary past, present, and future of a species. In this study, we examine the rangewide population genetic structure of the ...