**Rodney Dietert** is Professor of Immunotoxicology at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received his PhD in immunogenetics from the University of Texas at Austin. Among his authored and ...

First on Radioactivity Monday we looked the new field of Microbiome research. The human microbiome is the community of all the bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites that inhabit our body. Our guest ...

But Dr. Rodney Dietert, a professor at Cornell University, thinks the best way to face these big problems is by thinking small. His specialty is immunotoxicology, the study of hazards to the human ...

Microorganisms living inside the human body make crucial contributions to how the immune system combats disease, according to Prof. Rodney Dietert, immunotoxicology. In a talk in Mann Library Thursday ...

A Cornell researcher and his wife have conducted the first comprehensive review of later-life diseases that develop in people who were exposed to environmental toxins or drugs either in the womb or as ...

Rodney Dietert, Cornell professor of immunotoxicology, has penned a new book, "The Human Superorganism: How the Microbiome Is Revolutionizing the Pursuit of a Healthy Life" (Dutton, 2016), that calls ...

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ITHACA, N.Y., May 3 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers have determined later-life diseases resulting from fetal and infant toxicity have common immune patterns. Cornell University scientist Rodney Dietert and ...

The routine conduct of safety screens on adult animals misses potential windows of unparalleled immune vulnerability in early life, writes immunotoxicology professor Rodney Dietert of the Cornell ...

Putting the microbiome front and center in health care, in preventive strategies, and in health-risk assessments could stem the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases.

A Cornell researcher has found that people who had been exposed to prenatal toxins and develop later-life diseases have in common an imbalanced immune system and hyperinflammatory responses. A Cornell ...