Learning & Education
The European Human Exposome Network (EHEN) Scientific Meeting took place from May 30th to June 1st in Leuven, Belgium. The focus of the third day of the meeting was “Exposome Research: Understanding and Addressing Policy Challenges.”
The exposome: the cumulative measure of environmental exposures and corresponding biological responses that can be derived from biological samples (blood, urine, tissue).
The debate of nature versus nurture was put to rest by introducing the exposome concept [3], the definition of which considers environmental factors (nurture) and the associated biological responses (nature).