Science/Nature

rewrite this title Environmental Factor – June 2020: Anant Parekh welcomed as new deputy laboratory chief at NIEHS

Summarize this content to 1000 words The NIEHS Signal Transduction Laboratory has a new Deputy Chief — Anant Parekh, D.Phil. He arrived at the institute December 2019 and has been busy preparing his Calcium Signaling in Health and Disease Group for the research it will perform. Parekh’s team will study how abnormal calcium signals may […]

US & World

Ferguson police address violent clash at protest on 10th anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s death

Summarize this content to 1000 words Protests marking the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown Jr.’s death began peacefully and escalated as the night wore on, leading to injuries, property damage and several arrests, according to the Ferguson Police Department.”We had protesters lined up across the street here, and for the majority of the night, they […]

Science/Nature

rewrite this title Environmental Factor – May 2020: Autoimmunity may be rising in the United States

Summarize this content to 1000 words Autoimmunity, a condition in which the body’s immune system reacts with components of its own cells, appears to be increasing in the U.S., according to NIEHS scientists and their collaborators. Miller also heads the NIEHS Environmental Autoimmunity Group. His team works to understand how genes and the environment may […]