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Groundbreaking USC-Led Study Introduces Improved Method for Cultivating Kidney Filtration System…
In a new study published in Cell Stem Cell, USC scientists report significant progress in cultivating nephron progenitor cells (NPCs), the cells destined to form the kidney’s filtration system, the nephrons. NPCs hold immense promise for…
Habitats Prove Much More Vulnerable to Nitrogen Deposition Than Previously Believed, Study Finds
Nitrogen deposition is one of the four main pressures on nature in Europe. Many of the Natura2000 sites suffer from an excessive input of ammonium and nitrate from farming, industry, traffic and households, leading to the disappearance of…
Wageningen Liberation Festival Lacks Healthy and Vegetarian Food Options, Attendees Say
As much as 92% of the food and drinks offered at the Liberation Festival (May 5th 2022) in Wageningen does not contribute to a healthy diet. Almost half of the food offered (46%) was vegetarian (without fish or meat), but this consisted…
Study: Smoking During Pregnancy Increases Odds of Overweight Children
New research has turned up another reason for women to avoid smoking during pregnancy. A recent study in the journal Gut Microbes has found an association between mothers smoking during pregnancy and a higher risk of their children becoming…
Billions of Pounds of Fish Thrive in U.S. Reservoirs, Study Finds
After nearly a century of people building dams on most of the world’s major rivers, artificial reservoirs now represent an immense freshwater footprint across the landscape. Yet, these reservoirs are understudied and overlooked for…
UC Davis’ Estella Atekwana Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Estella Atekwana, dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the academy announced April 24.
“I’m still absorbing it all,” said…
Oxford’s Leah Thompson Joins Queen Mary as First Associate Director of Entrepreneurship
As the head of EnSpire Oxford, Leah Thompson leads a broad range of institutional entrepreneurship activities, including efforts to increase diversity in entrepreneurship. EnSpire connects key entrepreneurial initiatives and resources…
Study Reveals Over 2,000 Genetic Signals Linked to Blood Pressure in Analysis of 1 Million…
Researchers led by Queen Mary University of London and supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) have discovered over a hundred new regions of the human genome, also known as genomic loci, that appear to…
£42 Million Prostate Cancer Screening Trial Launched by Queen Mary University of London
The trial, funded by the charity Prostate Cancer UK, will be the biggest prostate cancer screening trial for 20 years. Recruitment of hundreds of thousands of men from across the UK will begin next year, with first results expected in…
Queen Mary University of London Poll Uncovers Ethnic Minority Perspectives on British Politics and…
Much has been written about the difficulty of accurately polling ethnic minority voters in the UK. According to the 2021 census, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) people make up 18 per cent of the UK population but are consistently…