Our Website: https://www.findinggeniuspodcast.com/ Subscribe and review our Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2L6tN88 Follow us on: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/futuretechpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/finding_genius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findinggeniuspodcast/ A nephrologist for over 35 years, Vivek Jha discusses kidney function and disease treatments like dialysis and kidney transplantation. He helps listeners understand 1. Ties between kidney function and most other organ systems, 2. Differences between acute and chronic kidney disease, and 3. Efforts towards bringing disadvantaged communities the best in kidney disease treatments. Vivekanand Jha is Executive Director at The George Institute for Global Health, India; Chair of Global Kidney Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of London; and President of the International Society of Nephrology. In this podcast he covers the basics of kidney function, kidney disease, and late-stage efforts like dialysis treatment. He accompanies all these issues with an eye to the global inequalities in effective treatment and discusses ways to educate populations and bring better medicine to all. In fact, he tells listeners that he became a nephrologist partly because of these inequalities. He also describes why the biology intrigued him: kidney function presents a "microcosm of internalized medicine." In other words, the kidney affects all other organs and, as a doctor, one utilizes every element of internalized medicine to address kidney issues. He describes the complex and essential nature of kidney functions, from filtration, adaptability to different solutes, hormone production, and the biology behind these jobs such as nephrons function. He teaches listeners about the back and forth between kidneys and blood pressure control and talks about how early stage kidney disease is usually symptomless. He advises listeners on which tests to seek out regularly for those at risk and touches on the goal of dialysis treatment. Finally, he talks more about the necessity for policy changes by governments in addressing health disparities in a holistic manner. For more about global kidney health, see the International Society of Nephrology website, theisn.org, and for more about his team's research, see his page at The George Institute for Global Health: georgeinstitute.org/people/vivekanand-jha. Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK #nephrology #kidneyhealth #kidneydisease #Findinggeniuspodcast #Healthpodcast #InternalMedicinepodcast #Biosciencespodcast ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSDGzciJ1mk

Our Website: https://www.findinggeniuspodcast.com/ Subscribe and review our Podcast on iTunes: https://apple.co/2L6tN88 Follow us on: Facebook: https://web.facebook.com/futuretechpodcast/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/finding_genius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/findinggeniuspodcast/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/finding-genius-podcast/ How many stars in the sky? Gaia astronomer Timo Prusti is more qualified than most to posit an answer. He helps manage the project undertaken by the ESA mission space lab called Gaia—to measure the position of almost 2 million stars—and talks about the far-reaching implications and space exploration benefits. Listen and learn 1. How the mechanics of the Gaia project work, from using solar system parallaxes for measurements to their time frame,  2. How data such as brightness work in their calculations, and 3. What this information reveals about our universe, stars, and galaxies, including the origin of the Milky Way galaxy. Timo Prusti is a project scientist with the European Space Agency (ESA) on the Gaia team and takes listeners on a ride through the stars in the universe. The Gaia satellite is positioned about 1.5 million kilometers away from the earth, collecting data to help Prusti and his colleagues measure star positions. The distance is tricky to calculate, but they use parallaxes: think of putting your finger in front of your eye and closing and opening the other eye such that your finger seems to jump. Gaia measures the star location from one side of the sun and then half a year later from the other side of the sun; this “jump” measurement is plugged in to their equation. These data points are collected 24 hours a day and sent to their labs on earth. What’s been useful about this information? Well, Prusti explains how other scientists can use this for fundamental research in numerous fields. For example, scientists were able to determine the atmosphere of Triton, a moon of Neptune, based on the shadow that hit the earth when it passed between the earth and a star they had measured. Gaia has completed what’s called the “nominal mission,” but is continuing with further work and measurements. They’re hoping to keep it going until early 2025 and use the motions of stars to open up a totally new area of investigation—to understand our own Milky Way galaxy: its structure, how it was born, and what is its future. For more, see cosmos.esa.int. Available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/2Os0myK #space #solarenergy #Findinggeniuspodcast #galaxies #astronomy #galaxy #universe #nasa #NASA #ESA #stars #cosmos #planets #moon #solarpower #Healthpodcast #InternalMedicinepodcast #Biosciencespodcast ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSxfRCIhSNk