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Fewer pulmonary exacerbations, hospitalizations with Trikafta: Study

Treatment with Trikafta (elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor) contributed to a reduction in pulmonary exacerbations requiring hospitalization between 2018 and 2022 among children and young adults with cystic fibrosis (CF). That’s according to a recent study in the U.S. that also demonstrated that the proportion of hospitalized CF patients from minority groups,…

UCLA team developing one-time, inhalable CF gene-editing treatment

Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) are developing a gene-editing therapy — designed to be delivered as a one-time inhalable treatment — that aims to correct the underlying mutations that cause cystic fibrosis (CF). The team is using tiny fat-based particles to deliver the gene-editing machinery…