While some research takes us down well-worn paths, some scientists like to dust off their hiking shoes and take the road less traveled! This includes researchers led by Bastiaan Heijmans (Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands), Tobias Uller (Lund University, Sweden), and L.H. Lumey (Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA), whose collaborative work aims […]
- Dutch Hunger Winter
DNA Methylation Links Prenatal Famine Exposure to Adulthood Metabolic Conditions 6 Decades Later!
Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center in the Netherlands are back at it again: studying the long-term epigenetic effects of prenatal famine utilizing the Dutch Hunger Winter Cohort. The Dutch Hunger Winter was a famine that devastated the Netherlands in the winter of 1944-1945 amidst WWII, which produced a cohort that were in utero during […]
Developmental Windows: Dutch Hunger Winter
Famine is never a good thing, particularly if you’re a developing fetus. And while the role of maternal diet in fetal programming is nothing new to the world of DNA methylation, there’s still a lot to be learned about the subtle variations. When it comes to growth and metabolism, timing of the environmental exposure appears is important, […]