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I know what this means, but it sounds like they started with one diseased kidney and ended up with two diseased kidneys.

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If this pans out, this would be an AMAZING thing!!!! My mom has End-Stage Renal Disease, & this could mean she may not need a transplant.

This would be great for cats and dogs as well as there is a great percentage of them who are subject to kidney disease. Hoping as the owner of a beautiful Siamese cat with CKD.

Wow. Medicinal advances are likely to cure di many diseases.

I'm curious about this branching of research like this into liver and biliary tract diseases. The article says

>They teamed up with scientists in Germany to investigate the role of IL-11, which is known to trigger scarring in other organs, including the liver, lungs and heart, in acute and chronic kidney disease

I have sclerosing cholangitis, I wonder if I'll see a drug trial soon about this for PSC patients.