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...
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...
In addition to offering a couple students the opportunity to participate in pilot project research, the HERCULES Center also connected students with some of our investigators to assist in working on...
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...
The future of environmental health and exposome-related research lies with current students. Their fresh perspectives and enthusiasm are invaluable to these projects and the advancement of the field....
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...