Watch Are You What Your Mother Ate? The Agouti Mouse Study
- 2017
- 14 hr
The foetal susceptibility hypothesis suggests the nourishment an embryo receives from its mother is a major determinant of health in later life. This film documents how Professor Randy Jirtle's ground-breaking experiment at Duke University not only showed how our genetic destiny can be altered by changes in maternal diet but also gave the world a new science: Epigenetics.