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How behavior can transcend generations

The brain is a specialized organ that interprets information about the surroundings and translates it into behavior, allowing animals to cope with their dynamic environments. Ever since antiquity, thinkers (and helpless parents) have suggested that the activity of one's brain could somehow impact the fate... click to read more

Itai Antoine Toker | PhD student at Department of Neurobiology, Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel

epigenetics

roundworms

small RNAs

epigenetic inheritance

Reading time 3.5 min

published on Dec 10, 2019

How early-life adversity gets under the skin

Many women experience mental health problems during pregnancy and this can have health consequences for the unborn child. Indeed, a wealth of research findings have now shown that women with depression and anxiety in pregnancy are more likely to give birth prematurely, to have a... click to read more

Joanne Ryan | Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), Melbourne, Australia

health

pregnancy

epigenetics

Reading time 3.5 min

published on May 19, 2016