This year the Warren Alpert Foundation Prize honors scientists for transformative research leading to precision-targeted treatments for this devastating genetic disease.
A comparison of cystic fibrosis patients in the United States and Canada showed that, although the patients’ nutritional status and lung function improved in both countries from 1990 to 2013, the improvement rate was faster in the United States
In what is likely to be a major step forward in the study of influenza, cystic fibrosis and other human diseases, an international research effort has sequenced the ferret genome.
