[__ Science __ ] Cherishing children...wait...you guessed it, has lasting affects:

[chessman]

Holding infants -- or not -- can leave traces on their genes
Amount of close and comforting contact from caregivers changes children's molecular profile
"The amount of physical contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171127094928.htm​

2282 thálpō – properly, keep warm; (figuratively) "warm someone up" (= revive their health) by nourishing and nurturing.

Paul the geneticist from Tarsus:

1 Thessalonians 2:7-8 Lexham English Bible (LEB)
7 Although we could have insisted on our own importance as apostles of Christ, yet we became infants in your midst, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children. 8 in this manner longing-affectionately for you, we were well-pleased to impart to you not only the good-news of God, but also our own lives, because you became beloved ones to us.​

Ephesians 5:29-30 Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT)
29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but he nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church, 30 because we are body-parts of His body.
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Kind of puts a new spin on us (the church) being held in His hands, and being a New Creature and body-parts of His body, no??? Now that's some good genes to have. I always knew that something in my physical make-up changed the day I accepted the cherishing love of Christ into my heart. Now I have the molecular proof!