Although more studies are demonstrating that a father's environment can influence child
health and disease, the molecular mechanisms underlying non-genetic inheritance remain …

Strong evidence suggests that early-life exposures to suboptimal environmental factors,
including those in utero, influence our long-term metabolic health. This has been termed …

Our efforts to understand the developmental origins of birth defects and disease have
primarily focused on maternal exposures and intrauterine stressors. Recently, research into …

Currently, most men with infertility cannot be given an aetiology, which reflects a lack of
knowledge around gamete production and how it is affected by genetics and the …

The decline in human reproductive and metabolic health over the past 50 years is
associated with exposure to complex mixtures of anthropogenic environmental chemicals …

Epigenetic inheritance is a phenomenon whereby stochastic or signal-induced changes to
parental germline epigenome modulate phenotypic output in one or more subsequent …

Emerging research suggests that exposures occurring years before conception are
important determinants of the health of future offspring and subsequent generations …

Many different lifestyle factors and chemicals present in the environment are a threat to the
reproductive tracts of humans. The potential for parental preconception exposure to alter …

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) account for 1–6% of births in developed countries.
While most children conceived are healthy, increases in birth and genomic imprinting …

Background: The organochlorine dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) is banned
worldwide owing to its negative health effects. It is exceptionally used as an insecticide for …