Environmental Health paper selected as Editor’s Choice 2025
The article, co-authored by Houman Kahroba, Julian Krauskopf, Jacco J. Briedé, Tim Nawrot, and Theo M. de Kok, provides a comprehensive overview of how prenatal exposure to air pollution may influence early childhood health through small extracellular vesicles (sEVs). It highlights emerging molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that link in utero environmental exposures to developmental and long-term health outcomes, offering important insights for the field of environmental health research.
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