Measuring Individual Exposomes
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This newsletter and additional information about the committee and its activities can be found at http://nas-sites.org/emergingscience/. The newsletter is prepared by National Research Council staff to keep you informed of activities of the Standing Committee on Emerging Science for Environmental Health Decisions. The views expressed in the newsletter are those of the meeting presenters and participants. The newsletter does not represent either formal consensus conclusions of the attendees or positions necessarily endorsed by the National Research Council. roles of such measurements and highlighted two innovative proofof-concept studies that synthesized multiple sources of exposure data to characterize portions of an individual’s exposome. By assessing the utility of the emerging technologies and their potential integration, participants sought to inform researchers and policy-makers about the importance of the exposome concept and the new science and technology for understanding and preventing diseases. Stephen Rappaport, of the University of California, Berkeley, opened the meeting with a key question: Why do we care about environmental exposures? The simple reason, he said, is that even though two-thirds of the deaths in the world are caused by noncommunicable diseases, especially cancer and cardiovascular disease, Measuring Individual Exposomes
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تاریخ انتشار 2012