
Amy McDermott
Reporter, Front Matter at PNAS
Science reporter for Front Matter, journalism from @PNASNews. Alum of @grist & @ScienceNews HMU: [email protected]. Views my own.
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1 month ago |
mdpi.com | S. Byrholdt |Stinne Byrholdt Søgaard |Amy McDermott |Nathalie Sarup Panduro
1. IntroductionDiabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a major complication of diabetes and poses a significant global healthcare challenge, affecting 20–40% of individuals with diabetes [1]. DKD develops asymptomatically and is characterised by progressive damage to the renal vascular and tubular systems caused by autophagy, oxidative stress, and inflammatory processes [2]. Key risk factors include poor glucose regulation, hypertension, and genetic predisposition.
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2 months ago |
kiowacountypress.net | Amy McDermott
(California News Connection) Click play to listen to an abbreviated version of this article. One glimpse at the devastation in the Los Angeles area, and it’s hard to imagine a complete rebuild. But look at the town of Paradise in northern California today, and you’d never know that the deadliest wildfire in the state’s history leveled Paradise a few short years ago. On November 8, 2018, a downed power line sparked the Camp Fire.
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Sep 13, 2023 |
pnas.org | Amy McDermott |Louis G. Woodhams |Jingxuan Guo |David Schuftan
About 100 miles from the nation’s capital, near Taylor’s Island and Fishing Creek on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, hundreds of acres of dead trees stand upright, like toothpicks piercing the sky. They are among the mid-Atlantic’s largest “ghost forests,” woodlands rapidly converted to marsh because of sea-level rise. Image (pnas.2314607120fig01.tif) is missing or otherwise invalid.Loblolly pine trees drown en masse at Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.
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The practice of killing animals to manage populations is called "lethal control." Think: western coyote culls, or barred owls in the Pacific Northwest. But what does the science say about killing as a management tool? Does it work? @PNASNews investigates. https://t.co/XkTtrVasnY

Feral sheep roam Hirta, a rugged and windswept island far off the #Scottish coast. This short video unpacks new research, finding that long-term success for the #sheep hinges on the first year of life—especially for males. #Ecology https://t.co/LzqaTOiB6Q

A study in the pond-dwelling cousin of the #BrainEatingAmoeba finds that a cell's #microtubules can be tailored to different functions by its component tubulins. In @PNASNews. #amoeba #proteins #cellbio https://t.co/Zio1NwX1mT