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Molecular genetics information company, Good Start Genetics, Inc. has presented data from research being conducted to improve detection of inherited diseases, including cystic fibrosis (CF). The results of two studies that examined detection rates in patients undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) were presented  at the 2015 Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting…

Advanced Inhalation Therapies Ltd (AIT), an anti-microbial therapeutic company, recently announced that the European Commission, acting on recommendations from the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency, has granted orphan medicinal product designation to the firm’s proprietary high dose formulation of nitric oxide (NO), AIT-CF, to address the treatment…

Researchers at the University of Calgary in Canada have recently published in the journal BMC Pulmonary Medicine findings indicating that lung colonization by the bacteria Streptococcus pneumonia is relatively rare in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) and when present, it apparently does not have an adverse impact…

Last Friday marked the start of national Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month, when thousands of volunteers across the country will fundraise and advocate for more research to fight the disease. The month-long initiative will be spearheaded by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF), which will organize a series of events nationwide. The…

The Mauli Ola Foundation (MOF) will launch its 2015 tour to honor Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month in May with the first Surf Experience Day (SED) in Waikiki, Hawaii having just kicked off this last weekend on May 2, 2015. Sunny Garcia, the MOF Ambassador, has partnered with Hyatt Regency Waikiki…

Bianca Nicholas made history when she and Alex Larke, together known as Electro Velvet, represented the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2015 with the song “Still in Love with You.” Bianca suffers from cystic fibrosis, and the Cystic Fibrosis Trust is raising awareness through her participation in the…

Researchers have discovered an association between Cystic Fibrosis and infection with the parasite Toxoplasma gondii. The study entitled “Infection by Toxoplasma gondii, a severe parasite in neonates and AIDS patients, causes impaired anion secretion in airway epithelia” was published in the Proceedings of the National…

Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc. (CFFT) has granted a $5 million development award to clinical stage drug developer Corbus Pharmaceuticals Holdings to support the development process of its investigational drug Resunab to treat cystic fibrosis (CF). The funding from the CFFT, which is the non-profit drug discovery and development affiliate of…

Researchers at Yale University and Yale School of Medicine in Connecticut recently published in the journal Nature Communications that they were able to successfully correct the most common mutation in the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis (CF). The study is entitled “Nanoparticles that…

Discovering new compounds to treat cystic fibrosis is now more feasible as a result of work in the collaborative laboratory of Dr. Aleksander Edelman at INSERM in France. The research team identified new compounds using their novel functional assay that tests the function of the CFTR protein following the application…