Pesticides in Residential Soil
Research conducted by HERCULES scientists P. Barry Ryan and Dana Barr about the amount and type of pesticides found in the soil of Atlanta...
Research Highlights
January 23, 2017
Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles
Work by HERCULES Investigators Christine Payne and Melissa Kemp on titanium dioxide nanoparticles was recently featured in the Georgia Tech Research Horizons magazine. These nanoparticles, found in...
June 24, 2016
Emory’s CHEAR Laboratory Hub
Emory’s Children’s Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR) Laboratory Hub team is composed of a subset of the HERCULES team. Their involvement with HERCULES and passion for pursuing...
April 12, 2016
Pilot Project Recipients Year 4
Impact of exogenous and endogenous exposures on child developmental outcomes in classic galactosemia Judy Fridovich-Keil, School of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics Classic galactosemia (CG) is...
September 30, 2015
Emory awarded National Exposure Assessment Laboratory Network hub to study children’s health and the environment
Early this week the National Institutes of Health revealed the awards for the Children’s Health Exposure Analysis Resource (CHEAR), a research initiative that will facilitate the integration of...
September 17, 2015
Quantification of Chemicals through High-Resolution Metabolomics
In a recent article published in Toxicological Sciences, HERCULES researchers demonstrate the use of high-resolution metabolomics (HRM) to reliably quantify exposures. Detection and measurement of...
July 10, 2015
Cytoplasmic-Nuclear Redox Signaling Disruption by Dietary Cadmium Levels
Do cadmium exposures at the levels found in the American diet negatively impact lung inflammation and fibrosis? HERCULES’ researcher, Dean Jones, PhD and Young-Mi Go Kang, PhD set out to answer...
July 10, 2015
Michigan Polybrominated Biphenyls: Assessing Health Effects of Cumulative Environmental Exposures
Under the direction of Michele Marcus, PhD, an EHS Core Center Administrative Supplement was awarded to Emory University to expand an ongoing Michigan polybrominated biphenyls (PBB) study begun in...
June 1, 2015
Opportunities for Studying Environmental Exposures using Epigenetics: The Importance of Methylome-wide Association Studies
Recent advances in high-throughput technology now allows measurement of the DNA methylome. Dr. Yan Sun, HERCULES investigator and year one pilot award recipient, discusses the value of methylome-wide...