Maternal Stress and Epigenetics: Healthier Generations Begin in Utero

Dr. Yoko Nomura, a professor and researcher at The City University of New York (CUNY) Queens College and the Graduate Center, is working to change this through her groundbreaking research on maternal stress and fetal development in the field of epigenetics—the study of gene expression changes that don’t alter the DNA itself.

CCNY discovery creates new possibilities for water-responsive materials

The experts, including chemical engineers Raymond Tu and Xi Chen, mechanical engineer Honghui Yu, and postdoctoral associate Darjan Podbevsek (power and process engineering), determined how water interacts with biomaterials at the molecular level to yield high energy density water responsiveness.