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What is ‘environmental medicine’?
Owing to the recent advance in genetic and molecular technologies, various phenomena can now be explained at a molecular level. The functions of proteins that are encoded by over 20,000 genes in our genome are being analyzed and put into a catalogue. However, we do not live on our own. – we are continuously exposed to various environmental factors. They include oxygen, radiation and gravity that are unavoidable as long as we live on earth, and thousands of chemicals, pathogens and even mental stress. It is obvious that the description of genetic network is not good enough to understand our whole lives, but research on interaction between ‘outside’ and ‘inside’ our lives are essential. ‘Environmental medicine’ aims at connecting the limitless ‘outside’ world that may affect our lives with the‘inside’ world expressed in the language of science. |