Traumatizing your DNA

Thursday, March 24, 2011 - 00:30 in Health & Medicine

After an exhaustive survey of contemporary epigenetics studies, one researcher has concluded that some of the effects of stress, cancer and other chronic diseases may be passed on to our offspring -- and theirs -- through deep and complicated underlying cellular mechanisms that scientists are just beginning to understand.

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