The rat study found that
baby rats showed anxiety and gained more weight when exposed to the chemical Firemaster 550.
Not exact matches
Researchers at McGill University have
shown that specific parenting behaviors by mother
rats change the way certain chemicals are affixed to certain sequences on a
baby rat's DNA, a process known as methylation.
Animals studies
show us that regularly separating
baby from mother alters the brain (the first 10 days of life for
rats is comparable to the first 6 months for human
babies).
Schanberg (1994)
showed that growth slows down when
rat babies are separated from mother.
«The instant the
rat was
shown, the
baby began to cry,» Watson wrote in a 1920 report.
Yet newly released population data from the U.N.
show that developed countries, from the U.S. to Spain, have been experiencing (at least up through the beginnings of the economic crisis in 2008), if not
baby booms, at least reproductive «
rat - a-tat-tats.»
The video
showed researchers marking newborn mice by amputating their toes and cutting the brains from
baby rats without anesthesia.
Not only can endocrine disrupting chemicals affect developing
babies later in their lives, but there's some evidence that they can also affect future generations: one study on
rats showed that exposure to endocrine disruptors during pregnancy affects the brain two generations later!
Now, for its latest
show, TBHQF will present Stay With Me
Baby, an animatronic installation of singing «union»
rats at the Berlin Gallery Weekend this weekend.