@mikek206 I wouldn't be so quick to assume that someone is purposefully hiding a cure. Researchers work hard to find treatments that work. As I mentioned earlier, we hear about the promise of potential treatments in traditional media when research is in its earliest stages. Furthermore, the media like to use misleading headlines that proclaim a cure.

Note that in the article to which you refer (https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/new-compound-stops-progressive-kidney-disease-its-tracks), the research to date has only been done on animals. In this case, rats. In other words, very early in the research process.

It takes years for a treatment to get through all the stages of clinical trials and then approval for use. It is frequently stated that it takes an average of 17 years for research evidence to reach clinical practice. Many promising treatments fail when progressing from animal trials to human trials, and researchers have to go back to the drawing board, so to speak.

I look forward to seeing the development of this promising trial. But please note that it is NOT a cure, but has the potential to slow the progression of some types of kidney disease.