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	Podcast:		Other News
	Episode:		Laboratory Mistake Sends Scientist Down New Path
	Category:		Government & Organizations
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	Publish Date:		2018-03-17 12:04:00
	Description:		Bisphenol-A, a chemical in plastics, thermal-paper receipts and the lining of tin cans, has been fingered as the culprit for a bunch of health problems . In our bodies, BPA acts like a hormone -- and in animals, at least, it seems to disrupt all sorts of important functions. A lot of what we know about BPA comes from the work of Patricia Hunt , a professor in the School of Molecular Biosciences at Washington State University. And she did not start out looking for toxic chemicals; she started out looking at eggs. That is, human eggs. Hunt was studying why eggs deteriorate as women get older. She was working with mice, and things were going great, until suddenly, they weren't. “We were getting some very cool data, I was saying ‘yeah we’re on the right track!’ And all of a sudden, the bottom fell out for us,” says Hunt. That meant her mice -- the normal, control group -- suddenly had a bunch of defective eggs. After some sleuthing, they turned up a culprit: plastic. Specifically, the mice
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