Characterizing Exposomes: Tools for Measuring Personal Environmental Exposures

Characterizing Exposomes: Tools for Measuring Personal Environmental Exposures

Measuring Individual Exposomes

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Monitoring Environmental Exposures: Now It’s Personal

Soft, stretchable, epidermal sensor with integrated electronics and photochemistry for measuring personal UV exposures

Excessive ultraviolet (UV) radiation induces acute and chronic effects on the skin, eye and immune system. Personalized monitoring of UV radiation is thus paramount to measure the extent of personal sun exposure, which could vary with environment, lifestyle, and sunscreen use. Here, we demonstrate an ultralow modulus, stretchable, skin-mounted UV patch that measures personal UV doses. The patch...

Epigenetics and environmental exposures.

It is becoming increasingly apparent that genetic factors are inadequate to fully explain many processes that shape development and disease. For example, monozygotic twin pairs, despite sharing identical DNA sequences, are often discordant for many traits and diseases, indicating that the same genotype can give rise to distinct phenotypes. This points towards the involvement of additional facto...