MeSH tree: C06.689.202
An inhalable medicine with the potential to improve lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis, irrespective of their mutation type, is being tested in human trials in the UK and Europe.
Feb 20, 2025
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Findings from a new Dartmouth-led study, published in the journal mBio, highlight key differences in the gut microbiome (communities of bacteria) of infants with cystic fibrosis (CF) compared to that of healthy infants, and ...
Feb 13, 2025
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Despite new medication, cystic fibrosis often leads to permanent lung damage. Working with an international team, researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have discovered that the disease causes changes in ...
Feb 6, 2025
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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease affecting multiple organ systems, with pancreatic dysfunction representing a critical and often overlooked complication. A recent study published in eGastroenterology ...
Jan 17, 2025
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Women are less likely to receive a lung transplant and spend an average of six weeks longer on the waiting list, according to a study published in ERJ Open Research. However, women who receive a lung transplant are more likely ...
Jan 9, 2025
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Living with a chronic illness in the family is hard. It's even harder if you know that the person you love will get worse and won't recover from their condition. Sadly, it can happen to any family at any time. Anyone—a grandparent, ...
Jan 3, 2025
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Cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that attacks the lungs, affects roughly 1 in 3,000 people, and cystic fibrosis-related diabetes (CFRD) is its most common complication, a rare and unique type that differs from more common ...
Dec 18, 2024
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An international team led by researchers at the University of Toronto and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard has assembled the first large-scale, publicly available map to show the impact of mutations on where proteins ...
Oct 25, 2024
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Gene-editing therapies—techniques that modify DNA to treat or prevent disease—have the potential to transform the field of drug development. By making precise edits to the genome, problematic genes could be modified or eliminated, ...
Oct 21, 2024
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The question of what causes complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's or multiple sclerosis continues to confound scientists and doctors, with the unknowns standing in the way of early diagnoses and effective treatments.
Oct 17, 2024
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