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Spotlight on implementing new research results in clinical practice ERA-EDTA is organizing a series of e-seminars to initiate open discussion within the nephrology community on how to apply the findings of recent trials to the needs of…

Don't give up, researchers say Research confirms what a lot of folks have guessed: as we age, motivation wanes and getting off the couch and out the door becomes more challenging. A new research article looks at the correlation between…

Project using roundworms uncovers a mechanism that leads to male infertility caused by high temperaturesCredit: Image by Nicole Kurhanewicz EUGENE, Ore. - Oct. 23, 2020 - University of Oregon biologists have used the model organism…

Using two mode-locked femtosecond lasers and a single photon counting detector, scientists have recorded broad spectra with close to one hundred thousand colors in almost complete darknessCredit: Nathalie Picqué Our eyes are sensitive…

Yes, there are benefits to working at home; but there are traps, too It may seem a bit contradictory at first glance, but increased flexibility in our workday may have given us less flexibility in the work itself. The daily press and the…

Credit: Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have studied a population of women in rural Poland for the past four years to understand how their lifestyle…

A Stanford-led research team is helping disaster response officials figure out where injuries are likeliest to occur, so survivors can get to the hospitals best able to treat them In an increasingly urbanized world, population density…

There has never been a more dangerous time than the COVID-19 pandemic for people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer, respiratory problems or cardiovascular conditions, new UNSW Sydney research has found.…

A project to develop household sprays and other products that can provide long-lasting protection against the COVID-19 virus has been launched at the University of Birmingham. Over the next 18 months, researchers aim to formulate…

Extreme events in quantum cascade lasers enable an optical neuron system 10,000× faster than biological neuronsCredit: Spitz et al., doi 10.1117/1.AP.2.6.066001 Extreme events occur in many observable contexts. Nature is a prolific…

Vulnerable kidney cells undergo similar cellular processes during diabetic kidney disease and COVID-19 infection, potentially explaining why the two illnesses together are so deadlyCredit: hb.flatironinstitute.org/covid-kidney People…

Although the lungs are a common target for COVID-19's cytokine storm, so are the kidneys, making the 1 in 4 U.S. adults with diabetes resulting in diabetic kidney disease at increased risk for virus mortality. But why are the kidneys so…

Research by the University of Nottingham's Rights Lab has identified that slavery and human trafficking are present in 90 per cent of modern wars. Modern slavery experts Professor Kevin Bales, Angharad Smith and Dr Monti Narayan Datta…

Thanks to refined microscopy techniques, researchers of SISSA and CNR-Iom have identified calcium flares in rods that no one had previously seen or even imagined Moving around in the half-light is difficult but not impossible. To help us…

Credit: Ethen Schmidt | University of Kansas LAWRENCE -- A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from NASA's TESS and Spitzer space telescopes to portray for the first time the atmosphere of a highly…

Serotonin can act as a growth factor for the stem cells in the fetal human brain that determine brain sizeCredit: Lei Xing et al., Neuron 2020 / MPI-CBG During human evolution, the size of the brain increased, especially in a…

Bioplastics may be produced from oil, but that's about the only benefit, researchers say Conventional plastic is made from oil. The production of plastic is not sustainable, and it can contain substances we know are dangerous if ingested.…

Widespread use of masks remains the primary tool for combating COVID-19 and economic shutdowns, cost benefit analysis suggests government subsidies for masks bear great returns Recent FDA chief Dr. Scott Gottlieb argued that he'd "rather…

Credit: Dececchi et al. 2020. Research Assistant Professor Dr Michael PITTMAN (Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory, Division of Earth and Planetary Science & Department of Earth Sciences) at The University of Hong Kong…

Feitian Zhang, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Pei Dong, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, received $15,000 from U.S. Army Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate and the Virginia…