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Pursuing Precision Medicine for Chronic Kidney Disease
Caption: Scanning electron micrograph showing a part of one of the kidney’s glomerular filters, which are damaged in people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The cells with the lacy cytoplasmic...
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Happy New Year: Looking Back at 2016 Research Highlights
Happy New Year! While everyone was busy getting ready for the holidays, the journal Science announced its annual compendium of scientific Breakthroughs of the Year. If you missed it, the winner for...
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H3Africa: Fostering Collaboration
Caption: Pioneers in building Africa’s genomic research capacity; front, Charlotte Osafo (l) and Yemi Raji; back, David Burke (l) and Tom Glover.Credit: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor About a year...
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Genome Data from Africa Reveal Millions of New Variants
Credit: Human Heredity and Health in Africa Initiative The first Homo sapiens emerged in Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago. We are all descended from that common pool of ancestors. Put another...
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A Race-Free Approach to Diagnosing Chronic Kidney Disease
Credit: True Touch Lifestyle; crystal light/Shutterstock Race has a long and tortured history in America. Though great strides have been made through the work of leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King,...
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Finding the ‘Tipping Point’ to Permanent Kidney Damage
Caption: Kidney organoids. Left, markers of the kidney’s filtering units called nephrons (purple, light blue, green); right, markers of the kidney’s connective tissue, or stroma (red and yellow)....
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