Tag Archives: kidney disease
Collaboration finds kidney disease tied to DNA damage
A research collaboration involving Rockefeller University and more than two dozen other institutions found that patients who had a specific kind of kidney disease — called karyomegalic interstitial nephritis — were likely to also have a mutation on FAN1, a gene that is involved in fixing DNA damage. More »
Clinical study to examine role of vitamin D in kidney disease
Vitamin D is the key to preventing rickets and osteoporosis, but a new clinical study at Rockefeller University will investigate whether it also plays a role in preventing atherosclerosis in patients with chronic kidney disease. More »
Tags: Jan Breslow, kidney disease, Manish Ponda
