The enzyme that could help 700 million people (VIDEO)

University of South Australia

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Approximately 700 million people worldwide now live with chronic kidney disease (CKD), largely due to a huge spike in obesity and type 2 diabetes in recent decades. Salt and high blood pressure are closely tied to CKD but scientists from the University of South Australia have identified an enzyme called NEDD4-2 which is critical to kidney health.

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