Gene markers quantify damage in individual kidney and liver cells

Researchers astatine the University of Cologne, University Hospital Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research person developed a method that, for the archetypal time, enables harm to idiosyncratic cells to beryllium precisely quantified. The method uses molecular markers—specifically cistron expression—and enables elaborate investigation of illness progression successful idiosyncratic insubstantial samples, specified arsenic a biopsy.