Breathing disorders are common in the U.S. with conditions like COPD affecting some 7% of the population and asthma affecting another 10%. Digestive conditions like GERD, acid reflux, Celiac disease ...
CFTR is a protein essential to wet surfaces throughout your body, like the airways of your lungs. People with cystic fibrosis have a gene mutation that causes problems with the protein. Some ...
If you and your partner both are carriers for CF, it doesn’t necessarily mean your child will have CF. But it will likely still affect your pregnancy. Genetic disorders range widely from long-term yet ...
A team of researchers studying the protein that, when defective or absent, causes cystic fibrosis (CF) has made an important discovery about how that protein is normally controlled and under what ...
Yale researchers successfully corrected the most common mutation in the gene that causes cystic fibrosis, a lethal genetic disorder. The study was published April 27 in Nature Communications. Cystic ...
Scottish VTuber, Dizzy Illy, died after battling cystic fibrosis. Dizzy has been public about her struggles with cystic ...
May 14—JAMESTOWN — For one Jamestown family, their first child was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and each parent knew they were carriers of a mutated gene that causes the genetic disease. For another ...
Transgenic ferret models ratted out how a rare cell type affects airway function. To determine whether these CFTR-rich cells are the lung’s airway traffic controllers, Engelhardt’s team developed ...
The first drug that treats the root cause of cystic fibrosis won approval Tuesday, offering a life-changing treatment for a handful of patients with the deadly illness and broader hope for thousands ...
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