/newsroom/taxonomy/term/10460/all en /newsroom/channels/news/nurses-care-young-mothers-leaves-traces-babies-dna-286970 <div><span>Researchers have known for a couple of decades that early life adversity can affect the way that particular genes function through a process called epigenetics - a bit like a dimmer switch on a light, pushing gene activity up or down. What they haven’t been able to show until now is that POSITIVE early life experiences can have a similar effect, and that these effects can be seen over thirty years later.  </span></div> <div> </div> Tue, 01 May 2018 19:24:32 +0000 laurie.devine@mcgill.ca 38901 at /newsroom