Title: Natural stable isotopes: new tracers in environmental health studies

Author: Qian Liu, Holger Hintelmann*, Guibin Jiang*

Abstract: An important objective of modern environmental sciences is to elucidate the relationship between environmental pollution and human health. The development of adverse health effects is heavily influenced by extrinsic environmental factors. There is evidence that environmental factors may contribute >70%-90% to the development of most common cancer types, while only ～10%–30% are attributed to unavoidable intrinsic risks (e.g. random errors in DNA replication) [1]. However, research into environmental health is limited by a lack of proper analytical tools. It is still extremely difficult to screen health risks and trace the sources of pollutants in complex systems by conventional analytical methods that mainly rely on the concentration analysis of environmental samples.

Link: http://nsr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/12/11/nsr.nww054

Comments:

应邀为NSR的Environmental pollution and health risk专刊撰写一个小综述（Research highlight）。NSR作为科学院主办的一个新晋全学科综述杂志，第一个IF就达到了8.00，当然我们在撰写的时候IF还没有公布，也没想到会有这么高。

虽然是只有一个page的小综述，但是代表了我们的一个学科发展方向建议，也是我们未来重点发展的研究方向。虽然难度非常大，但是希望未来能在阐明环境因素与疾病之间的关系方面有所突破，能够帮忙我们更好地了解到底环境因素是如何引发人类疾病的。