Environmental Factor – January 2022: Exposures, diverse populations, and epigenetics merge in grantee’s lab

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) This month marks the first anniversary of the Director’s Corner, which

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Environmental Factor – January 2022: Pets can be valuable sentinels of environmental exposures

Our pets share our environment. They sleep in our beds, drink our water, and play on our lawns. As a result, they are exposed to

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Environmental Factor – April 2022: Environmental exposures underpin many metabolic diseases, expert says

When NIEHS grantee Lida Chatzi, M.D., Ph.D., ran a clinic for childhood obesity in Crete, Greece, more than a decade ago, she was struck by

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Environmental Factor – May 2022: Environmental epigenetics uncovers links between exposures, disease

Our environment can affect our health at the most fundamental level, influencing our genome by changing how our genes are read or expressed. This concept

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Environmental Factor – June 2022: GuLF Study describes inhalation, dermal exposures for all oil cleanup job roles

In a just-released monograph, NIEHS Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) Study researchers describe the extraordinary work that went into developing inhalation and dermal exposure estimates for

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Environmental Factor – July 2022: Links between nutrition, exposures, and autism focus of NIEHS event

Genetics play a significant role in autism, but exposure to environmental contaminants such as air pollution and pesticides likely contributes, too. An NIEHS workshop held

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Environmental Factor – October 2022: Liver injury linked to PFAS exposures, NIEHS grantee says

A large-scale study on exposure to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in humans and rodents showed consistent evidence of chemical-driven liver damage, according to NIEHS

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Environmental Factor – October 2022: Autism researcher focuses on maternal diet, prenatal exposures

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) Scientific conferences that I attend often focus on bad things in

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Environmental Factor – October 2022: Role of complex exposures in breast cancer highlighted during workshop

Carlin is a program administrator with the Superfund Research Program. Her current research interests include chemical mixtures, combined exposures, metals, asbestos, and xenobiotic metabolism. (Photo

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Environmental Factor – December 2022: Environmental exposures and Parkinson’s disease: connecting the dots

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) At this year’s meeting of the American Neurological Association, held in

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