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Information to help kids to learn more about our environment, our health, and how NIEHS plays an important role in learning more about how the two are connected.

Researchers are interested in developing a registry protocol to obtain biologic and environmental samples anonymously from adult volunteers for use in laboratory tests and studies. The samples will be used to determine if new tests are sufficiently valid and precise to be used in research studies and for quality control purposes.

Asthma patients seem to be more prone to viral infections, and NIEHS scientists believe that the cells that line these patients' airways, cause this result by overproducing TGF-beta1, a protein that promotes viral growth. This study seeks participants with and without asthma to contribute airway cell samples.

This study is being conducted for families with siblings or twins in which one sibling has developed a systemic autoimmune disease and the other sibling does not have an autoimmune disease. The goal is to understand the genetic and environmental factors that may result in autoimmune diseases

Your participation in Natural History of Asthma with Longitudinal Environmental Sampling (NHALES) Asthma Study will contribute to research on how the environment affects the human body and asthma. Please consider joining today.

The goal of this research study is to compare persons who developed myositis during active duty to military personnel without autoimmune or muscle diseases, to assess risk factors for myositis.

A study is being conducted for individuals with the autoimmune disease polymyositis or dermatomyositis. The goal of this research study is to better understand the environmental risk factors that may result in these diseases.

The Immunity Cells in Blood Study will determine how immune cells in the bloodstream may, under certain circumstances, contribute to inflammation.

The Environmental Polymorphisms Registry (EPR) is a long-term research project to collect and store DNA from up to 20,000 North Carolinians in a biobank. By donating blood to the project, you will help scientists discover changes in our genes as a result of environmental exposures that may increase or decrease our risk for common diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

If you are a man or woman, 18-55 years old, living in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, and smoke cigarettes or use an electronic nicotine delivery system (e-cigarette), please join an important study on smokers being conducted by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).