Researchers have found that ovarian disease can result from exposures to a wide range of environmental chemicals and be inherited by future generations. Reproductive biologists looked at how a fungicide, pesticide, plastic, dioxin and hydrocarbon mixtures affected a gestating rat and #39;s progeny for multiple generations. They saw subsequent generations inherit ovarian disease by and #34;epigenetic …

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