The work of Dr. Michael J. Welsh and his fellow researchers has improved the quality of life and life expectancy for people with cystic fibrosis. Michael J. Welsh has won the Lasker Award and the 2025 ...

Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects roughly 40,000 Americans. The condition is caused by a mutation in the patient's cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene, ...

Maren Denison, third-year student at the University of Iowa, was in sixth grade when she found out her lung function had dropped to 60 percent as half of her lung had collapsed and was scarred shut.

Mutation of one gene is all it takes to get cystic fibrosis (CF), but disease severity depends on many other genes and proteins. For the first time, researchers at the UNC School of Medicine have ...