We all know that what a mother eats, drinks, smokes and does during pregnancy can affect her child’s prenatal development. But can it actually affect the baby’s DNA?
Animal studies have shown that transient environmental exposures of a pregnant female can produce “epigenetic” changes in her offspring — chemical modifications superimposed on the DNA sequence [...]

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