2024 Exposome Day
The 2024 Exposome Day webinar explores environmental risk factors and postpartum depression.
Tag: exposome
Aesop, Analysis, Rigor and Replication
The story “Aesop, Analysis, Rigor, and Replication” centers on the theme of the importance of methodological rigor and replicability in scientific research. Through the correspondence between Dr. Donatello Tartaruga and Dr. Peter Hare, it explores the contrasting approaches to scientific inquiry and the consequences of prioritizing novelty and quantity of data over thoroughness and reliability.
Meta-data, meta-fiction, meta-music, meta-everything
Metadata—it is commonly defined as data about data, but like other “meta” examples that’s too basic and doesn’t tell the whole story. In fact, sometimes a variable can serve as “data” to predict an outcome, and in other cases the same variable is used as “metadata”.
“Metal Machine Music” and Learning the Loops of Life
Like music, biology is rhythmic, we sleep every 24 hours, we secrete hormones at predictable levels depending on the time of day, even our body temperature rhythmically changes throughout the day.
I forgot to remember to forget (Elvis Presley by way of Stan Kesler and Charlie Feathers)
Researchers place a high value on memory, and without memory how could we function, how could we learn, how could we even find our way home? We judge someone with a good memory to be fortunate and seldom consider any downsides to remembering.
2023 Exposome Day
The 2023 Exposome Day webinar explored how the environment shapes women’s reproductive health over 40. Replay the webinar.
One-hit Wonders and the Exposome of Exposure Probability
Important events need only to happen once.
Mount Sinai Spinoff Startup LinusBio Raises $16 Million in Series A funding
LinusBio, a 2021 spinoff company from Mount Sinai, announced a Series A venture capital funding to deliver a novel platform that bridges genomics, the environment, and biological response. The company’s platform is based on new methods and technology developed by scientists at the Institute for Exposomic Research at Mount Sinai.
The Human Exposome Map: Making Order Out of Chaos
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end.” Lewis Carroll
Exposomics: The Final Frontier
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”- Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Memory and the Exposome of Love
Understanding how our social environment impacts our health is key to unlocking effective interventions that promote health and well-being. Let’s think about this in the context of what gives us joy in life: love, music, and happy memories.
Discovery Research vs Hypothesis Testing: Sherlock Holmes, Colonel Mustard, and “How Exposomics Learned the Trick” (Part II)
By taking what we’ve learned about discovery research and hypothesis testing, Dr. Robert Wright explains how we can grapple with the millions of factors that make up our environment and the different ways they affect our health.
WATCH: Preventing food allergy; It’s more than what is on your fork
The second session of the 2022 Lunchtime Chats, featuring Scott Sicherer, MD, Elliot and Roslyn Jaffe Professor of Allergy, Immunology and Pediatrics and Director of the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
WATCH: Understanding The Role of Exposomics For Clinical Care
The first session of the 2022 Lunchtime Chats. This series aims to reach broad audiences to educate families and communities about how the environment shapes health.
Discovery Research vs Hypothesis Testing: Sherlock Holmes, Colonel Mustard, and “How Exposomics Learned the Trick” (Part I)
With the help of Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective and the board game Clue, Dr. Robert Wright explains the differences between exposomics and traditional environmental health research – and the importance of integrating them
Nature vs Nurture – On the Origins of a Specious Argument: Part I
Can a health condition or a disease be 80% genetic and 20% environmental? Can we reimagine how we understand the origins of disease?
The Aleph and Systems Biology
Is it possible that your risk for disease was set when you were a baby? Evidence shows that our earliest years of life are perhaps the most important for understanding the origins of many health outcomes.
Reflections on the 20th Commemoration of September 11
We owe an extraordinary debt to the heroes of September 11, and to their brothers and sisters who survived that day but still bear the physical and mental health effects, as well as the scars and wounds of sorrow and loss. The World Trade Center Health Program is part of how we honor that debt.
The “Fetal Origins” of Adult Disease
Is it possible that your risk for disease was set when you were a baby? Evidence shows that our earliest years of life are perhaps the most important for understanding the origins of many health outcomes.
WATCH: From the Air We Breathe to the Food We Eat: Uncovering the Potential of the Exposome to Understand Health
Dr. Wright explains how the science of exposomics is transforming our understanding of environmental exposures on health trajectories, both for children and adults.