Blood test reports often feel like a maze of unfamiliar terms. But, two markers hold a lot of meaning: uric acid and ...

Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Senior Investigator in the Section on Genetics and Epidemiology at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston, MA. To facilitate translational research on ...

For many people with IgA nephropathy (IgAN), a condition in which immunoglobulin A (IgA) antibodies accumulate in the kidneys and trigger inflammation, kidney function stays stable for many years. For ...

Polycystic kidney disease affects 12 million people. Until recently, scientists have been unable to recreate the progression of this human disease in a laboratory setting. That scientific obstacle is ...