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 percent of cystic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . “[These findings] help clinicians be more supportive of a female with CF becoming pregnant,” Raksha Jain, MD, ...

Children ages two to five who have the most common form of cystic fibrosis (CF), caused by two copies of the F508 gene mutation, have not had any modulator treatments available to them until recently.

Over the past three decades, meaningful progress has been made in the research and understanding of cystic fibrosis (CF). 1 ...

North Chicago, Illinois — A research team at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science has developed a promising new therapeutic approach for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, a devastating ...

Genetic testing plays an important role in cystic fibrosis screening and diagnosis. It can help determine if a person has cystic fibrosis or carries gene mutations that cause it. Other tests can also ...

The drug is a small molecule with a novel mechanism of action, say David Bedwell, Ph.D., and Steven Rowe, M.D., MSPH, co-senior authors. Bedwell is professor and chair of the University of Alabama at ...