Children with a family history of type 1 diabetes (T1D) have an increased risk of developing the disease. However, children born to mothers with T1D are less likely to develop the disease than those ...

Researchers found that mothers who ate both peanuts and peanut butter during pregnancy had children with distinct DNA methylation patterns in key neurodevelopmental and inflammatory genes, revealing ...

Studies in roundworms by biologists at the University of Iowa suggest that a mother’s response to stress can influence her children and her grandchildren, through heritable epigenetic changes. Their ...

About 50 percent of pregnancies fail, and one of the main reasons is aneuploidy, a genetic condition in which cells do not have the correct number of chromosomes. 1 Aneuploidy commonly arises when ...

A new study in PNAS reveals that late European Neanderthals descended from a single maternal lineage, indicating a severe ...

Learn more about the discovery of antibiotic resistance genes in newborns within hours of birth in research presented at ...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body destroys its own insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas, leaving patients with a lifelong dependency on external insulin. Children ...