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Biochemistry of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Potential New Drug for Polycystic Kidney Disease Chemistry

    • Medicine

Craig Crews, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, of Chemistry, and of Physiology at Yale University discusses his recent research finding that triptolide, a component of a Traditional Chinese Medicine, may be the basis for a potent new drug to treat a lethal and debilitating genetic kidney disease.

Craig Crews, Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, of Chemistry, and of Physiology at Yale University discusses his recent research finding that triptolide, a component of a Traditional Chinese Medicine, may be the basis for a potent new drug to treat a lethal and debilitating genetic kidney disease.

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