The 2025 PKD RRC Symposium is almost here! See our 2 day agenda full of exciting and innovative talks! For more details, visit our website at pkd-rrc.org or www.scgcorp.com/PKDRRC2025/

Also. Do you need updated urine and plasma reference values for 42 amino acids in healthy adult male v female Sprague Dawley rats?? We've got you! And as an extra bonus, their specific diet composition can be found in supplemental.

NEW: In a further sign of turmoil at the NIH, Mike Lauer, who oversees the agency's $39 billion extramural budget that goes to research outside the NIH, has resigned effective tomorrow.

This comes after top NIH official Larry Tabak abruptly retired yesterday.

Happy to share new work on sex differences in #PolycysticKidneyDisease cyst fluid composition in @commsbio.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Analyzing in vitro microvascular network using BRAT Batch-Resourcing Angiogenesis Tool

Local Otsu adaptive segmentation
Graph network representation

vs AngioQuant AngioTool RAVE REAVER

Wait for the GitHub link😁

@mcallenby.bsky.social bioRxiv 2025
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Registration for the 4th Annual PKD RRC Annual Symposium is OPEN!! Participate in 2 days of exciting talks! Share your ideas on how we can move PKD research forward. For more details visit www.scgcorp.com/PKDRRC2025/

Scientific advancements aside, this is economically irresponsible

Every $1 spent by NIH generates $2.46

For example, in 2023, $47B in NIH spending generated ~$93B

Halting NIH spending will LOSE the US a lot of money (and talent)

Here's an animation I made that shows fluid flow in/out of the kidneys, with emphasis on the lymphatics since they are often left out of anatomical illustrations:

➡️ Fluid enters via the renal artery
⬅️ Fluid exits via the renal vein, lymphatics, and as urine

#scicomm #sciart #kidney #anatomy