ThinkBirth

The environment in which we live and move and have our being is critical to our physical, mental, spiritual and social functioning. More an...

Note: for some reason the links aren't showing up in this post. Just run your cursor over the words and they will show as a purple colo...

The way that our physiology switches genes on or off in response to environmental circumstances/triggers/cues, a process now studied as ...

Specifically, Cole analyzed transcription factor binding sequences in a gene called IL6, a molecule that is known to cause inflammation i...

The title of this article about gene expression from New Scientist is misleading. Not so much 'dirty tricks' but fascinating negoti...

"Elizabeth Gould overturned one of the central tenets of neuroscience. Now she’s building on her discovery to show that poverty and ...

Probing Question: Do emotions influence heart health? "Can positive emotions like love, friendship and social connectedness improve ...

A study of the children of 120 disadvantaged mothers from South London, reported in the January/February issues of Child Development, provid...

"The Barker hypothesis is named after epidemiologist David Barker, who during the 1980s began studying links between early infant healt...

Scientists seeking to understand the complex interactions involving hundreds of proteins that enables a human cell to split into two, have f...

Fascinating article Medical News: SMFM: Gene Variants Linked to Preterm Labor - in Meeting Coverage, SMFM from MedPage Today "Some ...

Ever wondered what it is like to be baby looking out at the world from inside a pram? Wondered what it is like to be a baby being carried? ...

Optogenetics: controlling brain cells with lasers New Scientist Story 7th January 2010 by Ewen Callaway http://www.newscientist.com/arti...

Gone are the days when babies were thought to be 'blank slates' requiring only sleep, clean nappies, warmth and food. Advances i...

During the crucial "window of opportunity" before birth and during infancy, environmental cues help "program" a person...

"Early adverse experience can disrupt the body's metabolic systems," says Shonkoff. "One of the cornerstones of biology i...

Obstetricians attitude to cord clamping Midwives who work with women in a one to one relationship based way with childbearing women were...

 Michael Mendezza from Touch the Future shared this information about the effect of environmental toxins on male fetuses and fertility. Arti...

Exciting developments in the field! "A gene commonly studied by cancer researchers has been linked to the metabolic inflammation that...

“Because of our very vulnerable offspring, the fundamental task for human survival and gene replication is to take care of others,” said Kel...