If the drug works in people, it could prevent kidney injury in high-risk populations, or potentially even treat other diseases that affect mitochondria, like heart failure and diabetes.

The world's a metabolic dance & early career scientists are leading the way! Emerging perspectives in metabolism Dr. Luis Cedeno-Rosario Bluesky:

From harnessing early-life microbes to protect against diabetes, to targeting cardiac metabolism in heart failure, a new hub is proving that metabolism is a common thread across diseases, and the next frontier in biomedical discovery.

A mass spectrometry and dialysis method detects metabolite-protein interactions that help to control physiology.