'Hunker down' stress genes boosted in women in violent neighborhoods March 13, 2021 The chronic stress of living in neighborhoods with high rates of violence and poverty alters gene activity in immune cells, according to a new study of low-income single Black mothers on the South Side of Chicago. March 13, 2021 Tags Tags Ruby Mendenhall Gene Robinson Sandra Rodriguez-Zas Andrew Greenlee Steve Cole Clare Rittschof stress neighborhood hunker down Related Articles