Elsevier,
Food Microbiology, Volume 117, February 2024
This article highlights the vulnerability of ready-to-eat fruits and vegetables to bacterial contamination from various pre- and post-harvest sources, emphasizing that understanding pathogen-plant interactions is essential for safeguarding global food systems and reducing foodborne illness outbreaks.
Elsevier,
One Earth, Volume 7, 16 February 2024
The paper addresses the urgency of communicating the worsening anthropogenic-driven species extinction crisis to diverse audiences and proposes a threatened species recovery report card as a tool to showcase conservation progress, emphasizing the need for immediate action to prevent further biodiversity loss.
Elsevier,
Kidney International Reports, 2024, ISSN 2468-0249, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ekir.2024.02.014
Hemodialysis (HD) units require large quantities of water. To reduce water consumption without compromising the adequacy and safety of dialysis, we studied a novel HD prescription with high temperature and low flow dialysate.
Elsevier,
Cell Reports Physical Science, Volume 5, 21 February 2024
Digestate is a widely-used liquid alternative to mineral fertiliser, but nutrients readily leech from it, limiting its application. Here, the authors use a porous silicon material to enhance digestate, improving nutrient retention and crop yields.
Elsevier,
Mechanisms of Ageing and Development, Volume 217, February 2024
This paper conducts a scoping review of research on the involvement of the glymphatic system in Alzheimer's disease-related sleep disturbances, finding that sleep disturbances impact protein aggregation and toxicity, glymphatic sequelae in sleep-disordered breathing, circadian dysregulation, and potential interventions, thus providing insight into the role of sleep disturbances in AD pathogenesis through glymphatic disruption.
