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Repackaged cancer drug boosts delivery to tumors, improves combination therapies

Aug. 21, 2025

University of Arizona researchers devised a new method to deliver cancer chemotherapy drugs to pancreatic and breast cancer tumors more effectively and with less damage to healthy tissues than standard forms of chemotherapy.

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Google Wants You to Know the Environmental Cost of Quizzing Its AI

Aug. 21, 2025

The tech giant has released details on the colossal amount of power required to respond to our everyday AI queries.

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“Climate Code Red” – A Summer of Learning

Aug. 20, 2025

Curriculum on extreme heat and health impacts designed for youth helps educate and inform.

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Community Engagement Core Summer Programs

Aug. 19, 2025
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Wildfire Fighters, Unmasked in Toxic Smoke, Are Getting Sick and Dying

Aug. 17, 2025

The U.S. Forest Service has fought decades of efforts to better protect its crews — sending them into smoke without masks or warnings about the risks.

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Exposure to some common Pfas changes gene activity, new study finds

Aug. 15, 2025

Research on how PFAS impact gene activity.

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$3.8M NIH grant will fund research into potential early COPD biomarker

Aug. 14, 2025

A new study will investigate whether levels of the lung protein CC16 in childhood can predict risk of early chronic obstructive pulmonary disease later in life.

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New EPA data show more towns have PFAS in their water. Is yours one?

Aug. 14, 2025

The EPA is nearing the end of the largest PFAS testing initiative it’s undertaken – a three-year effort that requires most public drinking water systems serving at least 3,300 customers to sample and report measurements for several types of forever chemicals.

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CEC Summer Student Worker/Intern Highlight

Aug. 12, 2025
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EPA says power plant carbon emissions aren’t dangerous. We asked 30 scientists: Here’s what they say

Aug. 11, 2025

The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.’'

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The mission of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC) is to facilitate and implement innovative research aimed at understanding the mechanisms underlying environmental health science risks and disease among people living in arid environments. The SWEHSC (P30 ES006694) is funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.


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