The Genes Way to Treat Yourself this Black Friday

The end of the year calls for replenishment and revelry. The holiday spirit, festive soirees and intimate gatherings with friends and family make room

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Environmental Factor – December 2019: Connecting Parkinson’s disease, pesticides, and genes

Research by Beate Ritz, M.D., Ph.D., from the University of California at Los Angeles, untangles complex interactions between genetic variation, pesticide exposure, and Parkinson’s disease.

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Environmental Factor – October 2024: Not just our genes: individualized medicine requires exposome analysis

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) To deliver on the promise of precision medicine, where disease prevention,

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Environmental Factor – September 2020: Precise geometry enables specialized protein to turn genes on

Though DNA is typically portrayed as a double helix, its long strands spend much of their time coiled, condensed, and crammed into a tight little

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Environmental Factor – October 2020: COVID-19 research funding targets role of genes, environment

Research supported by NIEHS and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) may help to explain why some people with COVID-19 become severely

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