At 7 years old, Morgan Barrett was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. Prior to her diagnosis, she struggled to gain weight ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated ...

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare autosomal recessive disorder that affects numerous systems of the body. It is a complicated ...

The median life expectancy for cystic fibrosis is now over 30 years, and it is projected that in newborn infants it will become more than 40 years. The identification of the cystic fibrosis gene and ...

Chronic lung diseases, such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), are major leading causes of death worldwide and are generally associated with poor ...

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO Mucus, a fluid in your upper respiratory system, is usually clear. But a number of health conditions can cause it to turn brown. Also known as brown phlegm ...

Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR), a Cl−-ion channel, assembles into dynamic macromolecular complexes. Understanding how these complexes regulate the intracellular ...

Background Clinical trials in cystic fibrosis (CF) have been hindered by the paucity of well characterised and clinically relevant outcome measures. Aim To evaluate a range of conventional and novel ...

Sionna Therapeutics, Inc. has announced the presentation of promising preclinical data at the 48th European Cystic Fibrosis Conference in Milan, showing that its nucleotide-binding domain 1 (NBD1 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — When he was about 14, Pete Proimos learned a soul-crushing statistic about the cystic fibrosis he’d endured since birth: Patients back then didn’t live much past high school.

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is one of the most common inherited diseases in white Americans—occurring in 1 in every 4,855 births—but mounting evidence suggests that the disease is more common in ...