When patients undergo heart surgery, their kidneys face significant stress. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most common complications after cardiac procedures, often resulting in longer hospital stays, higher costs and an increased risk of death. Now, a new collaboration between Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) aims to change that, using artificial intelligence to alert clinicians to early signs of kidney trouble giving them critical time to intervene before lasting damage occurs.

A recent paper from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME), published in Nature Communications, built an active learning model that was able to explore a virtual search space of one million potential battery electrolytes starting from just 58 data points. From this minimal data, the team from the lab of UChicago PME Asst. Prof. Chibueze Amanchukwu identified four distinct new electrolyte solvents that rival state-of-the-art electrolytes in performance.

Findings from the University of Kansas could offer important context for farmers who want to use beneficial microbes to improve yields. Today, microbial commercialization in agriculture represents an expanding multibillion dollar sector.

If we all ate more vegetables and less meat, and cut down on bananas, chocolate and coffee, we could free up significant areas of land for restoration and save hundreds of the world’s species from extinction, finds a new Cambridge study.

A UH researcher reports that managing life-threatening diabetic ketoacidosis may center around reducing ketone levels in diabetic patients and increasing exercise capacity. That could be life-changing for approximately 20-30% of the 830 million diabetic patients who develop the disease.