Epigenetics

The U.N. enlists the arts to bring home the arcane but vital necessity of reducing the phalanx of chemicals saturating our bodies.

A glimpse at the epigenetics of post-traumatic stress disorder suggests that the physical markers for PTSD may show up across generations.

Carl Cranor's book "Legally Poisoned" says lax, outdated law puts Americans at risk from untested industrial chemicals.

Additional studies suggest that common pesticides may be endocrine disruptors, bad news that nonetheless warms the heart of one citizen scientist.

Presidential advisory group moves to broaden focus of cancer research to precaution, prevention.

Judy Hoy's lonely crusade to determine if farm chemicals are deforming deer boosted by falling populations

Only more and better data will settle a dispute about the possibility that environmental pollution can cause inheritable disease.

The murky waters of the debate over chemical exposures and health just got murkier. And a bit nastier.

Science casting wide net in search of chemicals seen as likely suspects in feminization and reproductive anomalies being spotted worldwide.

Puzzled over health complications more persistent among African Americans than in other Americans, researchers invoke epigenetics.

Time to stir up the nature-versus-nurture debate a bit.

Advances in the field of epigenetics show that environmental contaminants can turn genes "on" and "off" triggering serious diseases that are handed down through generations. But there's also a more heartening prospect: The same diseases may be treated by relatively simple changes in nourishment and lifestyle.