New suite of chemicals may cause disease generations later: Plastics and jet fuel raise incidence of 'epigenetic transgenerational inheritance'

Thursday, January 24, 2013 - 19:30 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal's offspring. Among them: BPA and jet fuel. And they see a new outcome: Obesity.

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