In a bar, a poet meets the man behind the drug that saved his life — discovering how science, faith and chance created a future thought impossible.

After false starts and incremental gains, scientists crack the problem that made breathing impossible. Will answers come fast ...

Engineers at the University of Pennsylvania and Rice University have refined a technology for editing individual genetic "base pairs" to a new level of precision, opening the door to safer, more ...

Boehringer Ingelheim is discarding an inhaled gene therapy designed to treat cystic fibrosis (CF) after terminating a phase 1/2 trial. The shuttered study, dubbed Lenticlair 1, failed to produce ...

Michael Welsh, MD, of University of Iowa Health Care shares how decades of breakthroughs have made normal life possible for many cystic fibrosis patients. Michael J. Welsh, MD, a pulmonologist with ...

Hector Gutierrez, M.D., professor at the UAB Marnix E. Heersink School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine, founded Dream a Little Dream, UAB’s first ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG) - New research out of the University of Iowa is reshaping what it means to live with cystic fibrosis, a genetic disease that affects the lungs and other organs and can be fatal.

Peak nasal inspiratory flow (PNIF) measurement was a feasible, noninvasive method for assessing nasal airflow obstruction in children with cystic fibrosis and correlated significantly with nasal ...

A chloride sweat test helps diagnose cystic fibrosis (CF), an inherited disorder that makes kids sick by disrupting the normal function of epithelial cells. These cells make up the sweat glands in the ...

To topple access barriers to Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ potentially lifesaving, yet often out-of-reach cystic fibrosis therapy Trikafta, a buyers club has resurfaced with a plan to introduce a discounted ...