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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS),
an institute of the National Institutes of Health whose mission is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by defining how environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility, and age interact to affect the individual's health.

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
an institute of the national institutes of health whose mission is to reduce the burden of human illness and dysfunction from environmental causes by defining how environmental exposures, genetic susceptibility, and age interact to affect the individual's health.


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There are several recent examples of how research supported by the NIEHS is leading to paradigm shifts in understanding how environmental toxicants--even at very low-level exposures--can have significant consequences, including dysfunction and disease.
principal investigator in the NIEHS Laboratory of Respiratory Biology and lead author of the paper.
ATSDR is responsible for carrying out health-related activities; and NIEHS is responsible for basic research and worker training and education programs.
 
 
 
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