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....
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...