Cystic Fibrosis News
April 22, 2024
Top Headlines
Mar. 13, 2024 — Findings from a new study reflect the important role that the gut microbiome (communities of bacteria) plays in the airway health of persons with cystic ...
Nov. 21, 2023 — Scientists have engineered a living material resembling human phlegm, which will help them to better understand how a certain kind of infection develops on the lungs of patients with cystic ...
Oct. 10, 2023 — Synthetic anion binders could one day help treat the chronic lung ...
Sep. 27, 2023 — Experts in cloning and stem cell science are reporting that five lung stem cell variants dominate the lungs of patients with advanced cystic fibrosis, and that these variants drive key aspects of CF ...
Latest Headlines
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Apr. 11, 2024 — A Cystic Fibrosis drug targeting the basic defect that causes the condition has been shown to be safe and effective in newborns aged four weeks and ...
Mar. 5, 2024 — Researchers who work with tiny drug carriers known as lipid nanoparticles have developed a new type of material capable of reaching the lungs and the ...
Sep. 27, 2023 — Lung fibrosis is a debilitating disease affecting nearly 250,000 people in the U.S. alone with 50,000 new cases reported each year. There is currently no cure and limited available treatment options, ...
Aug. 25, 2023 — High levels of some minerals and metals in environmental water supplies may increase the risk of nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) pulmonary ...
July 7, 2023 — The mucus in the airways is not as sticky, inflammation in the lungs significantly reduced: Triple combination therapy can achieve these positive, lasting effects in patients with cystic fibrosis ...
Mar. 22, 2023 — The cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator has been studied for years but the new efforts have yielded important ...
Dec. 22, 2022 — Pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 and pneumococcus can cause severe pneumonia. If the airways then fill with fluid, the patient risks developing acute respiratory distress syndrome. Researchers have now ...
Oct. 26, 2022 — Researchers have taken a key step toward improving and lengthening the lives of cystic fibrosis patients, who experience chronically clogged airways and a dramatically shortened life ...
Sep. 7, 2022 — A potential new treatment combining natural manuka honey with a widely used drug has been developed by scientists to treat a potentially lethal lung ...
Aug. 18, 2022 — Researchers have successfully engineered human immune cells to model an infection common among immunocompromised people in a breakthrough discovery, ...
Earlier Headlines
Nov. 14, 2022 — Researchers have developed a simple urine test to measure the severity of the serious disease cystic fibrosis and assess the effect of new ...
Oct. 25, 2022 — Cystic fibrosis is missed more often in newborn screenings for non-white than white babies, creating higher risk for irreversible lung damage and other serious outcomes in Black, Hispanic, Asian, ...
Sep. 29, 2022 — Cystic fibrosis patients who supplement their diet with vitamin C can also derive greater benefit from another antioxidant, vitamin E, resulting in a reduction in damaging inflammation, a study ...
Aug. 8, 2022 — Cystic fibrosis remains an incurable genetic disorder which impairs lung function and significantly reduces life expectancy. A new combination drug therapy which addresses the disorder's ...
Aug. 1, 2022 — Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by a mutation of the CFTR gene. While there are many hundreds of known mutations, not all of them are currently treatable which means a significant number of CF ...
July 27, 2022 — Infants from minoritized racial and ethnic backgrounds who have positive newborn screening tests for cystic fibrosis received their diagnostic follow-up for the disease later than recommended and ...
July 14, 2022 — Antisense oligonucleotides, or ASOs, are molecules that can be used to control protein levels in cells. Scientists have discovered a new way ASOs may help cells produce a protein missing in cystic ...
June 16, 2022 — A drug discovery approach developed -- in part inspired by oil companies -- revealed why drugs for cystic fibrosis fall ...
May 24, 2022 — Cystic fibrosis is a rare genetic disease which can cause very serious symptoms. In particular, patients suffer from chronic bacterial infections that can lead to respiratory failure. It is caused by ...
Feb. 14, 2022 — Researchers have identified hundreds of new proteins that could play a role in cystic fibrosis, and which may shed light on why some patients respond better than others to current ...
Jan. 24, 2022 — Protein folding diseases, from Alzheimer's to Gaucher's, may one day be treated by a unique class of protein corrector molecules that are already helping manage cystic ...
Nov. 19, 2021 — Despite advances in patient screenings and breakthrough therapies that allow CF patients now to live into their mid- to late 30s or 40s, sometimes even longer, all patients are plagued by bacteria ...
Oct. 21, 2021 — In the largest study of its kind, researchers found that the lower airways in children with cystic fibrosis (CF) have a higher burden of infection, more inflammation and lower diversity of ...
Oct. 19, 2021 — A dogma-challenging discovery reveals that highly adapted bacterial communities in the sinuses of people with cystic fibrosis become more fragmented and experience mutations that erode their genomes. ...
Oct. 6, 2021 — New understanding of cellular defects related to Cystic Fibrosis (CF) could help pave the way for ...
Aug. 9, 2021 — Researchers corrected mutations that cause cystic fibrosis in cultured human stem cells. They used a technique called prime editing to replace the 'faulty' piece of DNA with a healthy ...
July 19, 2021 — An experimental drug suggests that a 'path is clearly achievable' to treat currently untreatable cases of cystic fibrosis disease caused by nonsense mutations. This includes about 11 ...
June 16, 2021 — A new CF treatment strategy involves small, nucleic acid molecules called oligonucleotides that can correct some of the gene defects that underlie CF but are not addressed by existing modulator ...
May 14, 2021 — New nanotechnology could change the lives of thousands of people living with cystic fibrosis (CF) as groundbreaking research shows it can improve the effectiveness of the CF antibiotic Tobramycin, ...
May 6, 2021 — A team of researchers has developed a molecular catalog of cells in healthy lungs and the lungs of people with cystic ...