At Telethon Kids Institute, we have a dedicated and diverse team of over 1,300 staff, students and honorary researchers. While our main facility is ...

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Fetal exposure to maternal smoking during pregnancy is associated with the development of noncommunicable diseases in the offspring. Maternal smoking may induce such long-term effects through persistent changes in the DNA methylome, which therefore hold the potential to be used as a biomarker of this early life exposure. With declining costs for measuring DNA methylation, we aimed to develop a DNA methylation score that can be used on adolescent DNA methylation data and thereby generate a score for in utero cigarette smoke exposure. ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2020
• September 2020

Research on adults has identified an immigrant health advantage, known as the 'immigrant health paradox', by which migrants exhibit better health outcomes than natives. Is this health advantage transferred from parents to children in the form of higher birth weight relative to children of natives? ...

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• Reports and Findings
• 2023
• March 2023

Does eating cashew nut spreads in the first year of life reduce the chances a baby will develop a cashew nut food allergy? ...

• The ORIGINS Project
• Sub-projects
• Allergy, Inflammation & Immunity

Can baby’s early movements predict learning difficulties later in childhood? ...

• The ORIGINS Project
• Sub-projects
• Brain & Behaviour

The “Earthrise” photograph, taken on the 1968 Apollo 8 mission, became one of the most significant images of the 20th Century. It triggered a profound shift in environmental awareness and the potential for human unity—inspiring the first Earth Day in 1970. Taking inspiration from these events 50 years later, we initiated Project Earthrise at our 2020 annual conference of inVIVO Planetary Health. ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• October 2021

The ecology of the early environment - including microbial diversity, nutrition, nature, social interactions and the totality of exposures in the wider "exposome" - have life-long implications for all aspects of health and resilience. In particular, the emergence of "microbiome science" provides new evidence for vital relationships between biodiversity and health at every level. ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2021
• August 2021

Concepts of planetary health attempt to collectively address the biological, psychological, social, and cultural factors contributing to “Anthropocene Syndrome”, which encompasses the many wicked interrelated challenges of our time. It is increasingly evident that the wide array of causative factors is underpinned by attitudes, values, and worldviews. ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2022
• May 2022

Treatments for food allergy are still lacking, yet progress is being made, and immunotherapy appears more effective than dietary avoidance. ...

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• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2015
• April 2015

Here we review the historical origins of exposome research and define a new concept, the metaexposome ...

• 1. Telethon Kids Institute
• Our research
• Reports and Findings
• 2017
• July 2017