Can a mother’s stress impact children’s disease development? Environmental health researcher says there is a connection between trauma and DNA mutation — ScienceDaily

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Stress on an expectant mother could affect her baby’s chance of developing disease — perhaps even over the course of the child’s life, UC researchers have found. Psychosocial factors creating stress — such as lack of social support, loneliness, marriage status or bereavement — may be mutating their child’s mitochondrial […]

Ancestry fought a police DNA database request and won

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Ancestry told BuzzFeed News that the warrant came from a courtroom in Pennsylvania, though it did not say what circumstance it was for. It did notify the publication, having said that, that the warrant “was improperly served” and that it did not “present any entry or consumer knowledge in reaction.” […]