Environmental Factor

NIEHS efforts to fight breast cancer focus on environmental exposures that affect risk, and translating that knowledge into prevention.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s ban on certain antibacterials in soaps was informed in part by Superfund Research Program studies.

New ideas in environmental health research took center stage at the meeting of the National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences Council.

Rodolphe Barrangou, Ph.D., spoke at NIEHS about the possibilities and challenges of CRISPR genome editing technology.

Lloyd Michener, M.D., discussed new efforts to improve public health, and the role of environmental factors in persistent health concerns.

In a Keystone seminar, Jennifer Adibi, Sc.D., described how the placenta secretes hormones and serves as a buffer from the environment.