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...
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...
Down syndrome and the fetal exposome Stephanie Sherman and Judy Fridovich-Keil, Emory University, School of Medicine Down syndrome (DS) is typically considered to be primarily a genetic disease...
Rabin Tirouvanziam, Department of Pediatrics Year Two pilot recipient, Rabin Tirouvanziam, continues to be an excellent example of how the resources and support from the HERCULES Center has helped...
Interstitial fluid collection via microneedle patches offers great potential for an efficient, noninvasive tool that could be used to take human samples across large populations with relative ease....
What causes breast cancer? A few genes are implicated but they only account for 5 or 10 percent of cancer cases. Dr. Dean Jones, director of the Clinical Biomarkers Core and the Metabolomics Core of...
In recent years, there has been increasing evidence that exposure to pesticides during critical developmental windows can have a negative impact on normal brain development. As insecticides such as...
Promoting Environmental Health Research On October 10th, HERCULES investigators and invited guests gathered to reflect on the past year and contemplate the next. Center director, Dr. Gary Miller, set...
Zhen Qi, Gary Miller, Eberhard Voit Pesticides like rotenone and paraquat are suspected as contributors to Parkinson’s disease, for which a primary trait is the loss of dopaminergic neurons over...