Adriana C. Vidal

TL;DR: A significant and independent association between paternal obesity and the offspring’s methylation status suggests the susceptibility of the developing sperm for environmental insults and altered methylation outcomes at multiple imprint regulatory regions in children born to obese parents, compared with childrenBorn to non-obese parents.

TL;DR: These x-ray data provide accurate values for the widths of raft and nonraft bilayers that should be important in understanding mechanisms of protein sorting by rafts.

TL;DR: An inverse association between in utero exposure to antibiotics and lower infant birth weight is reported and the first empirical evidence supporting imprinted gene plasticity in these associations is provided.

TL;DR: These experiments demonstrate that the sorting of peptides as measured by detergent extraction is temperature-dependent and both bilayer mechanical properties and hydrophobic matching impact peptide distribution between DSMs and DRMs.

TL;DR: Maternal stress may be associated with epigenetic changes at MEST, a gene relevant to maternal care and obesity, and reduced prenatal stress may support the epigenomic profile of a healthy infant.