Over time, Gelhaus spun an independent interest in the contribution of environmental compounds to noncancerous lung and airway diseases out of her original project. (sciencemag.org)
PULLMAN, Wash. — Washington State University researchers say ancestral exposures to environmental compounds like the insecticide DDT may be a factor in high rates of obesity. (news.wsu.edu)
In a community - based challenge led and organised by scientists from EMBL - EBI, Sage Bionetworks, IBM, the University of North Carolina, and the NIH's National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), hundreds of computational biologists from all over the world tried their hand at predicting the toxicities of environmental compounds that had potential adverse health effects. (sciencedaily.com)