Environmental Factor – March 2022: Building trust, sharing data: grantee promotes participatory research

During her Feb. 14 NIEHS Keystone Science Lecture, Mónica Ramírez-Andreotta, Ph.D., shared the numerous ways she works with communities to integrate their priorities into environmental

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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 – March 2023: NIEHS grantee awarded prestigious Wolf Prize

University of Chicago chemist Chuan He has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize in chemistry for his pioneering discovery of reversible RNA methylation and its

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Environmental Factor – June 2023: Scientific Journeys: From NIEHS grantee to presidential advisor

DeJarnett has received two NIEHS diversity supplements for research investigating the health effects of air pollutants and the health benefits of increasing urban tree canopy.

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Environmental Factor – July 2023: Microplastics research: sum of our exposures studied by grantee

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) More than 8 billion metric tons of plastics were produced globally

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Environmental Factor – September 2023: Diet and exposures in pregnancy: grantee tackles research, messaging

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) Regular readers of this column know that one of my goals

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Environmental Factor – April 2024: Grantee shines new light on cause of ciguatera seafood poisoning

Ciguatera poisoning is the most common non-bacterial seafood-borne illness in the world. More than 50,000 cases are reported annually, but scientists think that the true

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Environmental Factor – June 2024: The microbiome’s influence on human health explored by NIEHS grantee

Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) I recently had an in-depth talk with Peter Dedon, M.D., Ph.D.,

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Environmental Factor – September 2024: RIVER grantee examines chromium exposure consequences across species

Chronic exposure to a form of the metal chromium can both damage a person’s DNA and prevent the repair of that damage, potentially increasing the

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