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.