Michael Skinner, Washington State University (IMAGE)

Washington State University

Michael Skinner, Washington State University

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Michael Skinner, WSU professor and founder of its Center for Reproductive Biology, says ancestral exposures to environmental compounds like the insecticide DDT may be a factor in high rates of obesity.

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