Environmental Factor – November 2019: NIEHS grantees win prestigious award to study human gut microbes

Dedon researches systems biology, microbiology and infectious disease, and inflammation chemistry, among other topics. (Photo courtesy of Peter Dedon) NIEHS grantees Peter Dedon, M.D., Ph.D.,

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Environmental Factor – November 2019: Human health linked to animals, environment, say experts

Roughly 330 scientists, policy experts, biotechnology leaders, and college students attended the Triangle Global Health Annual Conference Oct. 16, co-sponsored by NIEHS. The meeting, held

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Environmental Factor – April 2020: Gut bacteria and human cells collaborate, make enzyme needed for life

Bacteria in the human gut cooperate with human cells to make a molecule essential for life, according to a team led by NIEHS scientists. The

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Human skull found in paddy field at Cherpu in Thrissur

A human skull and fragments of a skeleton were found in a paddy field at Ettumana in Cherpu panchayat in Thrissur on Monday morning. They

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Environmental Factor – October 2020: Rodent tumors from cancer studies look like human tumors

Sills leads the Cellular and Molecular Pathology Branch, which provides toxicologic pathology leadership support for NIEHS. (Photo courtesy of Steve McCaw) Analyzing the entire genetic

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Punitive demolition of homes, shops an ‘aggravated’ human rights violation, U.N. expert tells SC

Authorities demolish the house of an accused in a rape-murder case in Fatehpur district of Uttar Pradesh in 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI United Nations

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Environmental Factor – January 2021: Trainor explores human head and facial structure abnormalities

If you have read the book or watched the movie “Wonder,” which tells the story of a 10-year-old boy named Auggie with a facial abnormality,

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Environmental Factor – December 2021: Totality of human exposures, new research center explored by grantees

NIEHS grantees discussed topics ranging from environmental influences on chronic diseases to interventions aimed at reducing harmful exposures during the Exposome and Health Conference, which

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Environmental Factor – January 2023: Transforming the understanding of human health and disease

NIEHS efforts have demonstrated how knowledge of the exposome, or the totality of our environmental exposures can be harnessed to transform research on human health

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Environmental Factor – March 2023: New technologies to predict human toxicity explored in webinar

Three experts from the academic and private sectors presented emerging technologies that could provide biologically relevant alternatives to animal testing at a Jan. 30 webinar

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