Christy Clutter, PhD

Metabolomic epidemiology offers insights into disease aetiology - Nature Metabolism This Review article discusses how the emerging field of metabolomic epidemiology gives insight into the aetiology of various diseases and how these findings could be translated into clinical applications.

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REVIEW | Metabolomic epidemiology offers insights into disease aetiology

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Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.

At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

I think about this map a lot.

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Neat! I'm always so curious about all the ion channels that come up in my transcriptomic studies. I think they hold a lot of hidden gems, as displayed here!

This is acceptable. 🙂

2024 Edible Campus Gardens year-in-review - Sustainability By Mara Scallon, communications graduate assistant in the Sustainability Office Most members of the University of Utah community have a go-to, on-campus spot for grabbing…

So much education, sustainability and opportunity wrapped up into the University of Utah edible campus gardens! This is such an amazing project. @utah.edu

sustainability.utah.edu/2024-edible-...

My favorite quote from today:
"Joy is a form of resistance."

Stay strong and hopeful, scientists.💖

New Correspondence - Wang et al - Pathogens don’t respect politicians: US federal disruption poses a new threat to global public health

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RELMβ sets the threshold for microbiome-dependent oral tolerance - Nature RELMβ mediates a gut immune–epithelial circuit regulating tolerance to food antigens, offering targetable candidates for the prevention and treatment of food allergies.

So very cool! An epithelial-microbiota-immune axis controls the susceptibility to food allergy! #gastrosky #innateimmunity
congrats to the Chatila and Rakoff-nahoum lab @bostonchildrens.bsky.social

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Is ozone pollution harming unborn children? - @theU Interdisciplinary research documents a link between prenatal exposures in Utah and increased risk of intellectual disability.

I continue to be astounded by the impacts of #airpollution on multiple body systems. Especially as we enter an administration of increased resource extraction and fossil fuel use, let us keep in clear view what it's doing to our bodies and those of the ones we love.
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Congrats, Andy! That's wonderful.

Well this is lovely to see, especially in a dry year like this one. 🙏 Hoping the progress continues.

Such an important area of research. I suspect micro plastic pollution impacts so much more than we yet know, from both a health and environmental perspective.

Hello there!
I'm a gut immunologist by training, passionate about how metabolism, immunity and health collide, especially in the broader context of climate, food systems and nutrition.
Here to learn and network! 👋