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Exposome Perspectives Blog

Exposomics: The Final Frontier

“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

by sinaiexposomicsFebruary 6, 2023February 7, 2023
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

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.

by sinaiexposomicsNovember 29, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

The Language of Science and the Science of Language: Unseen Barriers in Research

The events that set climate change in motion occurred decades ago. How do we analyze the past and factor in the variable of chance when trying to predict future climate and weather events?

by sinaiexposomicsOctober 4, 2022October 5, 2022
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Climate Exposome Perspectives Blog

Climate Change Predictions: Butterflies, Monty Hall, and Chaos

The events that set climate change in motion occurred decades ago. How do we analyze the past and factor in the variable of chance when trying to predict future climate and weather events?

by sinaiexposomicsJune 16, 2022October 4, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

A Son’s Reflection on His Mother’s Life Journey

Dr. Robert Wright reflects on the life of his mother—Naoko Yogi Wright, a woman who grew up in extreme poverty, survived war and moved half-way across the globe to a foreign culture in hope of giving opportunity to her children, all the while continuing to contribute to the lives of the family she left behind in Okinawa.

by sinaiexposomicsMay 4, 2022June 16, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

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.

by sinaiexposomicsMarch 23, 2022March 24, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

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

by sinaiexposomicsFebruary 25, 2022March 23, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

Nature vs Nurture – On the Origins of a Specious Argument

Can a health condition or a disease be 80% genetic and 20% environmental? Can we reimagine how we understand the origins of disease?

by sinaiexposomicsJanuary 25, 2022January 26, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

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.

by sinaiexposomicsOctober 8, 2021January 19, 2022
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Exposome Perspectives Blog

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.

by sinaiexposomicsSeptember 7, 2021
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