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A new tool for estimating people’s total exposure to potentially harmful chemicals is developed by Mount Sinai researchers

07-Nov-2022 - A novel metric that estimates our “burden,” or cumulative exposure, to a family of thousands of synthetic chemicals that we encounter in everyday life with potentially adverse health impacts, has been created by a team of researchers at Mount Sinai. In a paper published in Environmental Health ...

hormone disorders liver damage per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances +2

Alzheimer's disease risk linked to a network of genes associated with myeloid cells

29-Jun-2017 - Many genes linked to late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) are expressed in myeloid cells and regulated by a single protein, according to research conducted at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Mount Sinai researchers led an international, genome-wide study of more than 40,000 people ...

Alzheimer's disease cells gene expression +6

Metabolic pathway that drives tumor growth in aggressive cancers

03-Mar-2017 - Mount Sinai researchers have discovered that a rheumatoid arthritis drug can block a metabolic pathway that occurs in tumors with a common cancer-causing gene mutation, offering a new possible therapy for aggressive cancers with few therapeutic options, according to a study to be published in ...

brain cancer breast cancer cancer cells +8

Teeth reveal lifetime exposures to metals, toxins

24-Jul-2015 - Is it possible that too much iron in infant formula may potentially increase risk for neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's in adulthood - and are teeth the window into the past that can help us tell? This and related theories were described in a "Perspectives" article authored by ...

baby food dentistry iron +3

Mount Sinai researchers develop database to help accelerate drug discovery

17-Sep-2010 - Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have developed a new computational method that will help streamline the analysis of gene expression experiments and provide scientists with a better mechanistic understanding of the differences between diseased and normal cells. The new database and ...

bioinformatics biomarker biomarkers +6