An interdisciplinary team effort by AIAS Fellow Iza Romanowska and researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Bergen have identified climate-driven changes to food availability as a factor behind dramatic historical events that led the oasis city of Palmyra in Syria to its ultimate demise. The new study is published in the journal PLoS ONE.

The new AIAS Associates will join 23 current Associates, and together with the 51 AIAS Fellows they form a large multidisciplinary, talented research community with exchange and collaboration across fields in focus.

A new study shows that the amino acid lysine – which affects metabolism – has a promising effect on kidney diseases in humans and animals. The study is headed by AIAS Fellow Markus Rinschen, and published in Nature Communications.