Summarize this content to 1000 words Federal agencies and their stakeholders discussed initiatives to reduce animal use in research and chemical safety testing at a public forum convened by the Interagency Coordinating Committee on the Validation of Alternative Methods (ICCVAM) May 20-21 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.ICCVAM members include 17 federal agencies, such as NIEHS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Summarize this content to 1000 words Rick Woychik, Ph.D., directs NIEHS and the National Toxicology Program. (Image courtesy of NIEHS) After I launched this column three and a half years ago, one of the first topics I covered was environmental justice. I interviewed NIEHS grantee Robert Bullard, Ph.D., often referred to as “the father of environmental justice,” who defined the term this way: Environmental justice is not so mysterious or
Summarize this content to 1000 words NIEHS hosted a June 18 celebration featuring a Juneteenth lecture, thought discussions, health webinars, and engagements with local community organizations to recognize the past and improve the future. Melissa Davis, Ph.D., founding director of the Institute of Translational Genomic Medicine at the Morehouse School of Medicine, delivered the Juneteenth lecture. The federal holiday observed on June 19 commemorates the ending of slavery in the
Summarize this content to 1000 words The story of human genomics has often been associated with the Human Genome Project, the monumental effort to map and sequence the human genome. But as Eric Green, M.D., Ph.D., said in a June 7 lecture at NIEHS, the completion of that project in 2003 was just the beginning — really just the first chapter — of the story.Green, who directs the National Human
Summarize this content to 1000 words Residential property disclosure statements in North Carolina now include a question about testing for contaminants in private wells, thanks to work by the NIEHS-funded University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Superfund Research Program (SRP) Center and collaborators. The decision by the North Carolina Real Estate Commission, effective July 1, requires sellers to indicate whether dwellings supplied by private well water have ever
Quick Guide for Busy Readers (30-second read) [This quick guide provides immediate value to busy readers while encouraging them to read further for more detailed information.] Introduction Finding the perfect rental property can be an exciting yet challenging journey. As someone who has personally navigated the rental market multiple times and helped countless friends find their ideal homes, I've gathered a wealth of knowledge on the subject. In this comprehensive
Summarize this content to 1000 words The language of science continually changes. Throughout the last ten years, a wide range of words and phrases have emerged from obscurity into common usage in science. These include zika, Ebola, ChatGPT and so on, words that reflect the ebb and flow of scientific research and broader events and fashions within science and society. These changes show up in the papers, reviews and articles
Summarize this content to 1000 words Pilot whales have always been joined at the hip. In fact, the tendency for a group of pilot whales to follow the direction of a group leader is exactly what earned them their name. Now, these nomadic oceanic dolphins are finding themselves navigating into shallow waters, leaving them stranded on various beaches in masses. A Sudden Increase in Pilot Whale StrandingAlthough stranding of pilot
Summarize this content to 1000 words It would seem obvious that rising sea levels that cut off the last population of woolly mammoths on Wrangel Island from the Siberian coast 10,000 years ago caused in-breeding, leading to their eventual extinction. But a new genetic analysis, reported in Cell, counters that claim.That result was unexpected, since an earlier report indicated that the mammoth population likely built up harmful genetic mutations, according
Summarize this content to 1000 words Dating can be tricky. If your timing is off, it can result in misunderstandings. This is especially true in fields like archeology and paleontology. If an item is identified as hailing from an incorrect year, entire lines of research can be put into question. So when Sturt Manning, an archeologist from Cornell University, and colleagues received a radiocarbon date that didn’t appear to line
