{"id":88018,"date":"2026-02-16T16:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=88018"},"modified":"2026-02-16T16:38:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T11:08:03","slug":"exposome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/exposome\/","title":{"rendered":"Exposome"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Exposome Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scientists are launching an ambitious global effort to map the \u201chuman exposome\u201d \u2014 the lifelong mix of environmental and chemical exposures that drive most diseases. <\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Exposome<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It can be defined as the <\/span><b>measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime, from conception onward<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>how those exposures relate to health.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><b>International Human Exposome Network (IHEN) defines<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the exposome as the <\/span><b>&#8220;integrated compilation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of all <\/span><b>physical, chemical, biological, and psychosocial factors,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and their interactions.&#8221;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It reveals the accumulated lifetime exposures that <\/span><b>determine our health, wellness, and susceptibility to disease.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is shaped by internal exposures such as individual metabolism or the microbiome, as well as external factors such as air quality.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It also <\/span><b>involves social or behavioral decisions <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that influence nutrition and exercise.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Exposomics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the <\/span><b>study of the exposome<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and relies on the application of <\/span><b>internal and external exposure assessment methods.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>Internal exposure<\/b> <b>assessment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relies on fields of study such as<\/span><b> genomics, metabonomics, lipidomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.<\/b> <b>Commonalities of these fields<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> include<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>use of biomarkers <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to determine exposure, effect of exposure, disease progression, and susceptibility factors<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>use of technologies that result in large amounts of data<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>use of data mining techniques<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to find statistical associations between exposures, effect of exposures, and other factors such as genetics with disease.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b>External exposure assessment<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> relies on <\/span><b>measuring environmental stressors.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Common approaches include using<\/span><b> direct reading instruments, laboratory-based analysis,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and<\/span><b> survey instruments. <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2026\/02\/260213223904.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exposome can be defined as the measure of all the exposures of an individual in a lifetime, from conception onward, and how those exposures relate to health. 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