On Jul. 15, 2020, in collaboration with the Guangdong CDC, Hunan CDC, Sun Yat-Sen University and Southeast University,…
On May 8, 2020, the Rice University COVID-19 Research Fund Oversight and Review Committee announced it had funded…
On May 5, 2020, the U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced the Airborne Hazards and Open Burn…
On Mar. 29, 2020, a study by UNMC/Nebraska Medicine/NSRI researchers provides new evidence of SARS-CoV-2 environmental contamination in…
On Dec. 13, 2019, the Masonic Cancer Center joined the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Study, Human…
On Nov. 30, 2018, Sean Norman, associate professor of environmental health sciences and director of the Molecular Microbial…
On Sept. 27, 2018, Researchers from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD and the J. Craig Venter Institute…
On May 2, 2018, Reed College announced that bio major Morgan Vague ’18 had isolated and bred three…
On Jan. 19, 2018, Yale evolutionary geneticist Gunter Wagner received the 2018 Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the…
On Nov. 1, 2017, a study from the Earth Microbiome Project reported the most extensive snapshot ever of…
On Oct. 25, 2016, the University of Washington’s Population Health Initiative received a $210 million gift from the…
On Jun. 24, 2016, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the results of its…
On May 13, 2016, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) announced a new National…
On Mar. 3, 2016, the University of Oregon (UO) announced receipt of a $10 million gift from Tim…
On Jan. 11, 2016 , National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) research scientist David J. Smith reported finding…
On Jun. 25, 2012, the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) announced the unveiling of its Legacy Campaign, a…
On Jan. 3, 2011, the Belly Button Biodiversity project was launched to investigate the microbes inhabiting our navels…
On Dec. 31 2010, In a meeting report from the Terabase Metagenomics Workshop in Snowbird, Utah, the Vision…
On Sept. 30, 2010, Utah State University geneticist Karen Mock announced that testing of a forest-size collection of…
On Jun. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a nationwide ban on cultivation of biotech alfalfa by…
On May 28, 2010, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received a request for a…
On Oct. 13, 2009, environmentalist and former genetics professor David Suzuki received the Right Livelihood Award for his…
In 2009, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) addressed widespread asbestos contamination in Libby, Montana….
On May. 13, 2008, the Breast Cancer and Environmental Research Act of 2007 amended the Public Health Service…
On Jan. 17, 2006, researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) announced the development of a…
On Aug. 29, 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) responded to the crises presented…
In 2005, the Georgia Legislature passed the Smoke Free Air Act, banning indoor smoking in publicly accessible buildings,…
Apr. 14, 2004, the National Center for Vermiculite and Asbestos-Related Cancers was established in Michigan in response to…
On Apr. 10, 2000, the Oregon Health Science Centers (OHSU) Center for Research on Occupational and Environmental Toxicology…
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