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Earlier this year, Marc Halushka, a pathologist at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio,  came across a review titled simply “MicroRNA,” an unusually short title in a big field. Looking deeper into the review, published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology in 2018, Halushka found it had been cited more than 2,000 times. He thought this number “shockingly high,” given …

A groundbreaking discovery by Canadian researchers has identified a microRNA capable of protecting delicate kidney blood vessels after injury, opening new possibilities for early diagnosis and treatment of chronic kidney disease. Credit: Shutterstock Millions of kidney patients could benefit from early detection and prevention as a result of the breakthrough made by scientists at the CRCHUM. In a groundbreaking achievement, …