{"id":27495,"date":"2026-06-04T15:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/scientists-finally-uncover-how-a-forever-chemical-causes-birth-defects\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:23:07","slug":"scientists-finally-uncover-how-a-forever-chemical-causes-birth-defects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/scientists-finally-uncover-how-a-forever-chemical-causes-birth-defects\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Finally Uncover How a \u201cForever Chemical\u201d Causes Birth Defects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/scientists-finally-uncover-how-a-forever-chemical-causes-birth-defects\/\" title=\"Scientists Finally Uncover How a \u201cForever Chemical\u201d Causes Birth Defects\"><\/a>PFDA, a PFAS \u201cforever chemical,\u201d can cause craniofacial birth defects by disrupting retinoic acid regulation during fetal development, revealing the first clear molecular mechanism behind the link. Researchers have long linked perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d to serious birth defects. However, scientists have struggled to explain exactly how these pollutants affect [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PFDA, a PFAS \u201cforever chemical,\u201d can cause craniofacial birth defects by disrupting retinoic acid regulation during fetal development, revealing the first clear molecular mechanism behind the link. Researchers have long linked perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called \u201cforever chemicals,\u201d to serious birth defects. However, scientists have struggled to explain exactly how these pollutants affect &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/scientists-finally-uncover-how-a-forever-chemical-causes-birth-defects\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Scientists Finally Uncover How a \u201cForever Chemical\u201d Causes Birth Defects&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}