“What your great-grandmother was exposed to during pregnancy, like DDT, may promote a dramatic increase in your susceptibility to obesity, and you will pass this on to your grandchildren in the absence of any continued exposures,” says WSU professor Michael Skinner. Research shows ancestral exposures to environmental compounds like the insecticide DDT may be a […]
WSU researchers have lengthened their list of environmental toxicants that can negatively affect as many as three generations of an exposed animal’s offspring. Writing in the online journal PLOS ONE, scientists led by WSU molecular biologist Michael Skinner document reproductive disease and obesity in the descendants of rats exposed to various plastic compounds (including BPA). […]
Eight WSU faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, including six in the College of Arts and Sciences: Sue Clark, regents professor of chemistry Daryll DeWald, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Herbert Hill Jr., regents professor of chemistry Ursula Mazur, professor of chemistry and […]
By Eric Sorensen, WSU science writer Since the 1960s, when the defoliant Agent Orange was widely used in Vietnam, military, industry, and environmental groups have debated the toxicity of one of its ingredients, the chemical dioxin, and how it should be regulated. But even if all the dioxin were eliminated from the planet, Washington State […]