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Old 06-30-2013, 02:59 PM   #1  
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Default A Tale of Two Mice - bisphenol a

This little slide presentation on Nova explains how two genetically identical mice grow to very different weights, due to maternal exposure to BPA, and how they managed to counteract that change.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/epigenetic-mice.html
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Very interesting!
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Thanks for posting! That is very interesting! I wonder if feeding the mice themselves higher folic acid or soy diet would help the ones that have the gene turned on too?
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