A team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions in Germany has developed a type of gene therapy that could be used to help people with cystic fibrosis. In their paper published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, the group describes how they developed a new class of non-viral gene vectors that could be used to reduce […]
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How a cloud-based solution is transforming care for people with cystic fibrosis
Sitting beside their son during one of his weeks-long hospital stays over the Christmas holidays a few years ago, David and Kirsty Hill had plenty of time to worry and think. As 12-year-old George lay in an isolation room, receiving antibiotics to treat a bacterial infection related to his cystic fibrosis, a progressive genetic disease […]
Cystic fibrosis siblings can’t share toys because it could KILL them
Brother and sister with cystic fibrosis can’t share each other’s toys because it could KILL them – but their parents admit it’s ‘so difficult’ to keep the siblings apart Sienna Woods, two, and Noah Woods, one, are unable to kiss each other CF people should be kept apart as their bacteria can be harmful to […]