Studying how the environment impacts human health
For the first time, institutions across the Barcelona area gathered for the Barcelona Exposome Symposium, an event on the 25th September 2024 designed to promote collaboration within the growing exposome research community. The exposome is the integrated compilation of all the physical, chemical,…
We are delighted to announce that Cornelius Gross, Interim Head of EMBL Rome, has joined the Earth, Brain and Health Commission. In partnership with Nature Mental Health, the commission aims to bring together an interdisciplinary group of world-class leaders to develop cutting edge and…
This workshop aimed to identify quantitative molecular proxies of environmental exposures through bringing together experts from across epidemiology, toxicology, social science, and computational biology.
EMBL researchers and collaborators have shown gut bacteria can alter how some carcinogens are metabolised and distributed elsewhere, that leads to bladder cancer. The study can help better understand how individuals’ gut microbiota affects tumour growth.
A study from the Hackett group at EMBL Rome shows that disrupting the gut microbiome of male mice increases the risk of disease in their future offspring.
This paper sets out a series of recommendations to adopt molecular biology approaches to understand the impact of environmental exposures on health.