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Environmental Factor October 2012 Issue Now Online

The October 2012 issue of the Environmental Factor is now online.

Stories include:

  • Directors report to council
  • Former postdoc lands first NIH grant
  • Moving forward with alternative test methods
  • Woychik addresses environmental epidemiologists at 24th ISEE
  • Council approves SRP training concept
  • Flame retardant narrative shows why scientists need to communicate with policymakers
  • NIEHS recognizes trainees on Postdoc Appreciation Day
  • Stokes inducted as Board Certified Environmental Scientist
  • NIEHS fellow transitions from bench to field applications specialist
  • Dartmouth SRP mercury movie premiers on the big screen
  • Sieber named to Amputee Coalition advisory committee
  • Silent Spring turns 50
  • NIEHS celebrates Labor Day with public health presentation
  • Library staff in place and ready to assist
  • NRC report supports NIEHS vision of the exposome
  • Birnbaum talks science and strategy at Dioxin 2012
  • Models take spotlight at council science talks
  • Mouse studies may help unravel human illnesses
  • Allergy research uncovers heart attack link
  • New strategy may improve delivery of medicines to the brain
  • Epigenetic studies can shed light on causes underlying complex disease
  • Challenges persist in the critical task of determining safety of nanomaterials
  • Integrating learning and memory tests into developmental neurotox studies
  • Exploratory study first to quantify TCE in breast milk
  • Former Superfund trainee honored for mass spec research
  • Paraoxonases ‹ poster-children for gene-environment interactions
  • Kunkel delivers keynote at Gordon conference on mutagenesis
  • Study finds that dad¹s job can influence birth defects
  • Novel technique for determining DNA damage effects on gene transcription
  • Low dose experts gather in Berlin

This month in EHP:

  • Upcoming workshop on innovative safety tests for pertussis vaccines
  • Workshop on human genomic plasticity begins Oct. 4
  • Extramural papers of the month
  • Intramural papers of the month
  • NIEHS kicks off CFC and boosts pledge goal
  • Feds Feed Families drive underscores NIEHS generosity
  • NIEHS honors dedication and longevity

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