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...
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...
Please consider going “fragrance free” for HERCULES events. Those suffering from chemical sensitivity may have adverse health reactions to products commonly used everyday such as scented...
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...
A workshop hosted by the HERCULES Systems Biology Core and Georgia Tech’s Integrative BioSystems Institute on May 27 and 28, 2015 Systems Biology is a field that addresses the dynamic...
Environment-Wide Association Studies (EWAS) provide an untargeted and comprehensive approach for considering environmental factors and their involvement in complex health/disease traits. EWAS...
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 memory and honor of our colleague, friend and dedicated community advocate, Clarence Oliver “Shaheed” DuBois HERCULES will rename the community mini-grants program to The Clarence...