Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects 2016 poster winners
Annual poster session showcases recent work on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS)
How chronic inflammation can lead to cancer
Researchers discover how the immune system can create cancerous DNA mutations when fighting off infection.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects poster winners
Cash prizes awarded to graduate students and postdocs for research on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents.
New evidence for how a rare form of liver cancer arises
MIT team finds mechanism by which exposure to vinyl chloride may produce cancerous mutations.
Center for Environmental Health Sciences announces 2015 call for pilot project proposals
Proposals are invited for basic and translational environmental health sciences research.
Study details a link between inflammation and cancer
Timing of inflammation determines whether potentially cancerous mutations may arise.
A double-edged sword
An enzyme key to DNA repair can worsen tissue damage caused by stroke and organ transplantation.
2014 CEHS call for pilot project proposals
Grants to be awarded in basic and translational environmental health science research
Fast way to measure DNA repair
Test analyzing cells’ ability to fix different kinds of broken DNA could help doctors predict cancer risk.
Students recognized for environmental health research
Grads and postdocs presented work at poster session held by Center for Environmental Health Sciences
Study IDs key protein for cell death
Findings may offer a new way to kill cancer cells by forcing them into an alternative programmed-death pathway.
How to minimize the side effects of cancer treatment
Measuring enzyme levels in patients may reveal healthy cells’ ability to survive chemotherapy.
Study identifies enzymes needed to mend tissue damage after inflammation
Findings may help predict colon cancer risk for patients with inflammatory bowel disease.