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CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

A bacteria which infects people with cystic fibrosis could help combat other antibiotic-resistant microbes, according to a team from Cardiff and Warwick Universities in Great Britain. Continuous use of existing antibiotics means that resistant bacteria are now causing major health problems all over the world. New...

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CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

Johns Hopkins Institute for Genetic Medicine researchers working as part of the North American Cystic Fibrosis Consortium have discovered two regions of the genome that affect the severity of cystic fibrosis, a genetic condition that causes scarring throughout the body, affecting most notably the pancreas...

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CF Community, CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

A diagnostic test from Abbott provides information used for CF carrier screening, newborn screening and confirmation of CF diagnoses in newborns and children. The Cystic Fibrosis Genotyping Assay looks for and examines mutations and variants in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene in human DNA....

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CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

Researchers from IBM and the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology discovered a nanomedicine breakthrough in which new types of polymers were shown to physically detect and destroy antibiotic-resistant bacteria and infectious diseases like Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, known as MRSA. Discovered by applying principles used in semiconductor...

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CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

It's been more than 20 years since scientists first discovered the gene that causes cystic fibrosis (CF), yet questions about how the mutated gene causes disease remain unanswered. Using a newly created pig model that genetically replicates the most common form of cystic fibrosis, University of...

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CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

The quality of life for children with cystic fibrosis has been improving over the years, in part through earlier diagnosis and clinical intervention. Thanks to a $300,000 Collaboration Award from The Hartwell Foundation, researcher Sean Fain of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Dr. Talissa Altes at the...

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CF News, Research
March 19, 2019

An imbalance of salt and water in patients with cystic fibrosis makes their lungs clog up with sticky mucus that is prone to infection. The cause of the offending imbalance is a well-known genetic error, one that blocks the molecular expressway for tiny chloride ions...