Tertiary Article

One exposure. Twenty generations later, the damage is still unfolding.

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A single exposure to a toxic agricultural fungicide during pregnancy can echo through 20 generations — with inherited disease risks from kidney disease to infertility not fading, but worsening over time, groundbreaking research reports.

Energy Department’s lab-leak pivot likely not driven by new intelligence, records suggest

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Newly released DOE records suggest the agency’s reported 2023 shift in a COVID origins assessment was likely a clarification, not a new conclusion.

‘Safe’ BPA substitutes tied to fertility damage, fetal harm, and generational effects, review finds 

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Chemicals increasingly used to replace the controversial plastic additive bisphenol A (BPA) may disrupt fertility, fetal development, and reproductive health through many of the same biological mechanisms, according to a narrative review of human, animal and laboratory studies.

Nanoplastics sneak into brain cells, disrupting puberty and fertility hormones, new study finds

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Tiny pieces of plastic, widely found in food, water, and air, can harm the development and function of specialized brain cells that regulate reproduction, new research reports. 

Defense Intelligence Agency considered lab leak scenario in March 2020, new records show

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More than six years after COVID-19 emerged in China and killed millions worldwide, newly released intelligence records show that the Defense Intelligence Agency was evaluating a detailed lab-origin scenario as early as March 2020 — weeks into the pandemic and well before the issue became a subject of public debate.