Cystic fibrosis is among the most common, known and studied genetic diseases. It affects over 100,000 people worldwide and ...

Twenty years ago, cystic fibrosis wasn’t a household term for me. Today, cystic fibrosis — a genetic disorder that causes a buildup of thick, sticky mucus that can damage organs, especially the lungs ...

Boehringer Ingelheim is discarding an inhaled gene therapy designed to treat cystic fibrosis (CF) after terminating a phase 1/2 trial. The shuttered study, dubbed Lenticlair 1, failed to produce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The genetic disorder cystic fibrosis is unique because it can cause both breathing and digestive problems. Some 40,000 people in ...

Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Researchers have discovered that the disease causes changes in the immune system early in life, presumably even in ...

The scientific imperative to identify drugs that could repair mutant CFTR presented a formidable challenge. Small molecules that specifically bound and repaired a defective CFTR peptide fold were ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated disease that differs from person to person. An autosomal recessive disorder ...

Inside the deadly disease confounding medicine, researchers piecing together clues and the breakthrough that meant survival ...

Atypical cystic fibrosis is a mild form of cystic fibrosis. People with this type of cystic fibrosis can experience symptoms that come and go or that are less severe than those people with classic ...

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 ...