1.0 link 221518 <![CDATA[Yale Scientists Discover How Exposure to BPA Causes Infertility]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elaine-shannon/yale-scientists-discover_b_221518.html Yale researchers may have solved a fundamental medical mystery: how bisphenol A (BPA), a ubiquitous plastics component, changes genetic chemistry and impairs fertility.

The Yale team's findings, previewed earlier this month to the Endocrine Society, a 14,000-member scientific and medical professional organization devoted to hormone system research and treatment, have intensified scientists' concern that exposure BPA, a synthetic estrogen that disrupts the endocrine system, may have grave consequences for human reproduction.

In an interview, study co-author Hugh S. Taylor, M.D., professor and...

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