Effects of chemicals in pregnancy and children's brain development - Giuseppe Testa
Channel: Human Technopole
Date: 2022-03-10

New results in Science: by linking human population studies with experiments in cell and animal models, researchers provided evidence that complex mixtures of endocrine disrupting chemicals impact on children´s brain development and language acquisition. With their novel approach, the scientists show that up to 54% of pregnant women were exposed to experimentally defined levels of concern. While current risk assessment tackles chemicals one at a time, these findings show the need to take mixtures into account for future risk assessment approaches.

Giuseppe Testa, Principal Investigator of the EDC-MixRisk responsible for the human experimental modeling, Professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Milan, Head of the Neurogenomics Research Centre at Human Technopole and Group Leader at the European Institute of Oncology, explains the results of the research.

The study was conducted in a collaboration among universities and research centres from Sweden (Uppsala University, Karlstad University, University of Gothenburg, Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, Stockholm University, Örebro University), Italy (University of Milan, European Institute of Oncology and Human Technopole), France (CNRS/Muséum d’histoire Naturelle), Finland (Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)), Germany (University of Leipzig), Greece (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), UK (University of Edinburgh), and the US (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York).

Read more: https://humantechnopole.it/en/news/more-chemicals-fewer-words-exposure-to-chemical-mixtures-during-pregnancy-alters-brain-development/

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