http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Exposing pregnant mice to low doses of the chemical tributyltin (TBT) – which was used in marine antifouling paints and is used as an antifungal agent in some paints, certain plastics and a variety of consumer products – can lead to obesity for multiple generations without subsequent exposure, a UC Irvine study has found. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-fetal-exposure-tributyltin-linked-obesity.html Overweight and Obesity Thu, 24 Jan 2013 16:42:02 EST news278268114 A team of researchers at the IRCM, supervised by Dr. Jacques Drouin, reprogrammed the identity of cells in the pituitary gland and identified critical mechanisms of epigenetic cell programming. This important discovery, published yesterday by the scientific journal Genes & Development, could eventually lead to new pharmacological targets for the treatment of Cushing's disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reprogramming-cell-identity-pituitary-gland.html Medical research Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:23:07 EST news269612487 Veteran British scientist John Gurdon, who shared the Nobel Prize for medicine on Monday, is often described as the "godfather of cloning" for his work on stem cell research but was once told by his teacher not to pursue a career in science. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-teacher-dissuade-nobel-winner-gurdon.html Other Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:25:57 EST news268899947 British scientist John Gurdon, awarded the Nobel Medicine Prize on Monday with Japan's Shinya Yamanaka for work in cell programming, said he was "immensely grateful and astonished." http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-gurdon-extremely-astonished-nobel.html Other Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:25:10 EST news268899894