Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age’

Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age’

Hello Nature readers, would you like to get this Briefing in your inbox free every day? Sign up here. The front of the Simons Observatory’s Large Aperture Telescope Receiver, the largest receiver for observing the cosmic microwave background built so far.Credit: Mark Devlin/University of Pennsylvania In a few weeks, a new observatory high in northern … Read more

Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age — but giving birth turns it back

Pregnancy advances your ‘biological’ age — but giving birth turns it back

Giving birth shifts a person’s DNA markings back toward a more youthful state, but this trend is less noticeable in new birth parents with obesity.Credit: Chicago Tribune/Getty Aches and pains aren’t all that pregnancy shares with ageing. Brewing a baby leads to changes in the distribution of certain chemical markers on a pregnant person’s DNA … Read more