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Study Illuminates Sugar’s Role In Common Kidney Disease

In a novel lab environment using mini kidney structures, drugs blocked the swelling of tubes seen with polycystic kidney disease.

Targeting Tau, The Other Protein Behind Alzheimer’s Disease

Most Alzheimer’s drugs in development target beta-amyloid, but targeting another protein, called tau, may be needed.

Some Abortion Experts Don't Disclose University Ties

Articles on smoking and gun control noted specialists' university affiliations about 90% of the time, but only 77% of the time with references to abortion.

Physically Active People Use Medical Services Less

People who regularly engage in physical activity are less likely to go to the doctor, emergency room or hospital, UW Medicine study finds.

Bat Virus Receptor Studies Vital To Predict Spillover Risk

Latest work unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry receptor.

COVID Vaccine Ideas May Have Better Variant Resilience

Results from a new molecular study provide a framework to guide engineering of future SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.

Ganglion Cells Created In Mice In Bid To Fix Diseased Eyes

The advance creates hope for treating glaucoma and other neurodegenerative conditions in humans.

Dilemmas Seen In Diagnosing And Treating Long COVID

A study of veterans showed great uncertainty about whether to attribute symptoms to long COVID or to patients' other existing conditions.

Study Sifts Potential Factors Of Device-Implant Complication

Machine learning identified preoperative conditions associated with poor outcomes of left-ventricle assist device surgery.

Transparency, Amnesty May Boost Reports Of Sexual Violence

College athletes face unique pressures when considering whether to disclose such an event, according to a study.

Initiation Of Intercourse Alters Vaginal Immune Environment

UW Medicine researchers say more studies are needed to determine the findings' clinical value.

Sea Turtle Success Stories Along African East Coast – but Thousands Still Dying

Conservation of sea turtles along much of Africa's east coast has made good progress in recent decades – but tens of thousands of turtles still die each year due to human activity, researchers say.

Cooperative Molecular Networks May Have Been the Spark of Life on Other Planets

Darwin’s theory of evolution probably isn’t the full explanation for the emergence of life.

Astronomers Detect The Closest Example Yet Of A Black Hole Devouring A Star

The event was spotted in infrared data — also a first — suggesting further searches in this band could turn up more such bursts.

Scientists Discover Anatomical Changes In The Brains Of The Newly Sighted

Following cataract removal, some of the brain’s visual pathways seem to be more malleable than previously thought.

Open-Source Platform Simulates Wildlife For Soft Robotics Designers

SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.

Cracking the Mystery of Jupiter’s High-Energy ‘Northern Lights’

In a new study, PhD students Gabriel Bridges and Shifra Mandel help show that both poles of Jupiter are aglow with high-energy light.

Scientists Discover How Mutations In A Language Gene Produce Speech Deficits

Faulty versions of the Foxp2 gene disrupt neurons’ ability to form synapses in brain regions involved in speech, a new study shows.

Common Virus May Cause Serious Disease in Transplant Patients

A common virus that causes no harm in most people may be a danger to organ transplant recipients and other immunocompromised people, say researchers at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Columbia Mailman School of Public Health.