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

A tiny antibody component could fundamentally transform the treatment of cystic fibrosis: For the first time, researchers ...

Cystic fibrosis used to be a death sentence. A progressive genetic disorder, the disease slowly drowned patients’ lungs with thick, sticky mucus while destroying other vital organs in its holistically ...

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Patients aged 6 years and older with cystic fibrosis will be able to access the triple combination treatment vanzacaftor/tezacaftor/deutivacaftor on NHS Scotland ...

Cystic fibrosis is a progressive, genetic disease that impacts organs including the lungs and pancreas. Almost 40,000 children and adults in the U.S. live with the disease, but thanks to advancements ...

Their rare-disease journey was thrust into the national spotlight in 1993 with an iconic Sports Illustrated cover featuring New York Jets quarterback Boomer Esiason and his young son Gunnar, who was ...

NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason and his son, Gunnar, were thrust into the spotlight in 1993 when Gunnar was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, then a little-known disease that was viewed as a fatal ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic "base pairs" to a new level of precision, opening the door to safer, more ...

"I live each and every day like it could be my last," the bride, Dannika Evans, tells PEOPLE Courtesy of Dannika Evans Dannika Evans married Bo Evans on June 13 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota The bride ...

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 ...

UCLA researchers have developed a lipid nanoparticle-based gene-editing approach capable of inserting an entire healthy gene into human airway cells, restoring key biological function in a laboratory ...