High exposure to radio frequency radiation associated with cancer in male rats
The National Toxicology Program found clear evidence that male rats exposed to high levels of radio frequency radiation developed cancerous heart tumors.
By turning on a gene found in all mammals, NIEHS scientists prompted male mice to grow ovaries, which suggests sexual development is flexible.
Novel technologies using nanoparticles may help clean up contaminated drinking water, according to the 2017 Karen Wetterhahn Award winner.
NIEHS will administer the grants of three scientists whose innovative research ideas received funding from the National Institutes of Health.
North Carolina researchers gathered to discuss a group of chemicals called PFAS that contaminate some of the state’s drinking water.
The state of opioid-related hazards in the workplace was the focus of the 2018 Worker Training Program workshop at NIEHS.
NIEHS epidemiologist Chandra Jackson, Ph.D., is one of 15 new JPB Environmental Health Fellows at Harvard.
NIEHS scientists and colleagues discovered that a protein in mice and humans called SOX17 may be critical for a woman to become pregnant.
In Kigali, Rwanda, an NIEHS-sponsored workshop focused on building environmental health research capacity in the H3Africa consortium.
Grantee Teresa Woodruff, Ph.D., was elected to the National Academy of Medicine for achievements that include the invention of EVATAR.
Former NIEHS scientist Ben Van Houten, Ph.D., shared findings on new functions for a DNA repair protein known as UV-DDB.
After Hurricane Florence devastated southeastern North Carolina, NIEHS grantees hit the ground running to test for contaminants.
NIEHS honored National Hispanic Heritage Month Oct. 16 with a talk by Scientific Review Branch Chief Alfonso Latoni, Ph.D.
NIEHS-funded researchers unmasked the genetic basis for how one form of harmful algal bloom becomes toxic.
Scientist Emeritus Joyce Goldstein, Ph.D., received the International Society of the Study of Xenobiotics scientific achievement award.
The National Toxicology Program’s advisory board discussed new directions shared by Associate Director Brian Berridge, D.V.M., Ph.D.
The NIEHS net-zero energy warehouse is the first Department of Health and Human Services building to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
This summer Heather Vellers, Ph.D., and Rachel Carroll, Ph.D., began academic careers, after only two years of research training at NIEHS.
The fall meeting of the North Carolina Society of Toxicology highlighted populations that are especially sensitive to toxicants.
