Environmental Factor Newsletter, January 2020

Pregnancy hypertension risk increased by traffic-related air pollution

Findings give new insights into the connection between poor air quality and the health of children and mothers.

Permanent hair dye and straighteners may increase breast cancer risk

woman with gloved hands running fingers through hair and gloves coated with hair dye

For hair dye, black women had greater risk than white women. For straighteners, risk increase was the same in both groups.

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Chronic inflammation needs focused research to reduce disease

Experts reviewed research on chronic inflammation, its role in common diseases, and the need for biomarkers and other research directions.

Extramural papers of the month /2020/1/papers/dert/index.htm

Intramural papers of the month /2020/1/papers/dir/index.htm

Calendar

Jan
10

NIEHS Office of Data Science presents “Chemmaps.com, Tox21BodyMap and InterPred: Webtools to Explore the Tox21 Data”
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Location: Building 101, Room F193
Time: 1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Alexandre Borrel, Ph.D., NIEHS Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch

Jan
16

Keystone Science Lecture Seminar Series presents “Early Life Determinants of Psychiatric Disorders”
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Location: Keystone Building, Room 1003AB
Time: 11:00 a.m. – noon
Speaker(s): Alan Brown, M.D., Columbia University Irving Medical Center and New York State Psychiatric Institute

Jan
21

Interagency Coordinating Committee on Validating Alternative Methods Communities of Practice Webinar on “Use of Animal-free Affinity Reagents”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Register for the webinar

Jan
24

The Society of Toxicology Carcinogenesis Specialty Section and the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals International Science Consortium present “Mechanistic Assessment of Carcinogenicity”
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Location: Webinar
Time: 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Registration and more information

Jan
24

The University of North Carolina Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility presents “Environmental Regulation of the Estrogen Response in Single Living Cells”
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Location: 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 130 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Time: noon – 1:00 p.m.
Speaker(s): Joseph Rodriguez, Ph.D., from the NIEHS Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory
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Jan
27-28

National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop on “Emerging Technologies to Advance Research and Decisions on the Environmental Health Effects of Microplastics”
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Location: Keck Center, Room 100, 500 5th St. NW, Washington, D.C.
Time: 8:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Agenda, registration, and more information

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