Maternal obesity is linked to heightened metabolic disease risk in offspring, but the mediators of this intergenerational effect remain unclear. Using a diet-induced obesity (DIO) mouse model, we ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — A single exposure to a toxic fungicide during pregnancy can increase the risk of disease for 20 subsequent generations — with inherited health problems worsening many generations ...

New research in C. elegans from scientists at Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) helps explain how changes in the parents’ lysosomes that promote longevity are transferred to their offspring.

Grand-offspring of male frogs exposed to the pesticide linuron exhibited changes in their DNA that were linked to significant physiological impacts, a study from Stockholm University reveals. The ...

What if a single exposure to a toxic chemical could have effects that continued to ramify for the next 20 generations, causing chronic disease symptoms that got worse, not better, as time passed?

A single exposure to a toxic fungicide during pregnancy can increase the risk of disease for 20 subsequent generations—with inherited health problems worsening many generations after exposure. Those ...