Maternal stress could leave epigenetic imprints on genes in the placenta associated with cortisol -- a necessary hormone for fetal development -- and this would affect the baby's development from very ...

Research links micro- and nanoplastics exposure during pregnancy to rising allergies. These particles enter mother and fetus ...

Among other things, environmental factors during the child's early development in the womb are suspected, which lay the foundation for later illnesses. A team of researchers from Empa, ETH Zurich, ...

UAF scientists have found microplastics in all marine mammals species they’ve studied so far, and new results show passage ...