Woychik will lead research into environmental influences on human health and serve as director of the National Toxicology Program.
NIEHS and Canadian scientists discover that cancer cells with mutated BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes died when they lacked a protein called APE2.
New initiative encourages research to transform treatment and prevention of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a devastating disease.
NIEHS will coordinate the standardization of National Institutes of Health analysis methods for metabolic breakdown products.
NIEHS-funded researchers find that pregnant women who lived close to wells in rural areas were more likely to have smaller babies.
The NIEHS advisory board discussed a new effort to tackle common diseases and approved a proposal to expand environmental health education.
The Society for Birth Defects Research and Prevention celebrates work of institute scientists at annual meeting.
The Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods spotlighted federal efforts to use new research approaches.
Jason West described how unchecked greenhouse gas emissions could reduce air quality and intensify hurricanes.
NIEHS grantees study pet dogs to better understand how human exposure to everyday chemicals may lead to cancer and other conditions.
New findings from the Agricultural Health Study suggest exposure to certain pesticides may increase risk of renal cell carcinoma.
NIEHS grant recipients and staff make connections between chemical exposures and latent disease risk.
Members of the Botanical Safety Consortium discussed the challenges of studying how plant-based diet supplements may affect health.
Seventeen high-scoring postdoctoral fellows from NIEHS win travel funds in the annual National Institutes of Health research contest.
Young workers in Egypt who apply pesticides adopted safer practices after low-cost intervention.
The Duke University professor’s Text Recycling Research Project aims to help scientists and editors deal with the ambiguity.
Bingham’s leadership in occupational safety and Smith’s groundbreaking research into indoor air pollution inspired people around the world.
Amid the global pandemic, the annual federal employee food drive innovates to serve record numbers of hungry people.