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...
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...
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...