Epigenetics mechanism may help explain effects of mom's nutrition on her children's health
Monday, March 11, 2013 - 18:30
in Health & Medicine
Pioneering studies by a molecular geneticist are helping explain how the foods that soon-to-be-moms eat in the days and weeks around the time of conception -- or what's known as periconceptional nutrition –- may affect the way genes function in her children, and her children's health.