For environmental exposures such as contact with volatile organic compounds, these studies are much rarer.
The sustainability of green concrete subjected to corrosive exposures such as carbonation or frost, however, still has to be proven.
Unlike genetic factors, epigenetic modifications are flexible and can store cell memories of life exposures such as diet, stress or environmental toxins.
But as our tissues age or accumulate damage from exposures such as smoking, normal stem cells find themselves less optimized to their ecosystem.
"We are looking for other exposures, such as vaccines and drugs taken in pregnancy or earlier in the mother's life and for other congenital abnormalities in the families," Turchi says.
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) constitute a potentially susceptible group towards environmental exposures such as livestock farm emissions, given their compromised respiratory health status.
To examine the potential sensitivity of adolescents to radiofrequency electromagnetic field (RF EMF) exposures, such as those emitted by mobile phones.
Deterioration of concrete surfaces is caused by forms of wear due to various exposures, such as erosion, cavitation, and abrasion.
Other exposures such as other people besides your parents, your neighborhood and environment, television and advertising may have affected your personality.
Within cities there is a considerable variation in the levels of environmental exposures such as ambient air pollution, noise, and temperature, green space availability and physical activity.
Researchers may later add more biological samples and draw on geospatial information about environmental exposures, such as air quality data.
