Virginia Hunt
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Virginia Hunt was an Editorial Intern at Encyclopædia Britannica in 2025. A student at Northwestern University, she is majoring in journalism and biology with a minor in creative writing. Her writing has been featured in The Tennessean, The Daily Northwestern, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.
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Exposome, the complete set of environmental exposures throughout a person’s life, as well as how these exposures contribute and relate to disease and overall health. Both the concept and the term exposome were coined in 2005 by epidemiologist Christopher Wild; it may be a portmanteau of expose and…
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