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People living with cystic fibrosis (CF) find it easier to maintain good nutrition when they have access to personalized care from dietitians and nutritionists, an interview-based study found. But food costs, health problems, and lack of support from care teams can be barriers to achieving nutrition goals, the researchers said.

The Unity Fetal Risk Screen, a test that uses a pregnant person’s blood to evaluate the fetus’s risk of cystic fibrosis (CF), accurately detected all cases of CF in a study involving more than 100,000 pregnant people. The study found that most CF cases identified by the test are…

A trio of scientists is being honored for research contributions that helped lead to the development of Trikafta, a triple-drug combination medication for people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The three winners of this year’s Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award are Paul Negulescu, PhD, senior vice president at Vertex…

The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is investing up to €6.5 million (about $7.6 million) to support the development of virus-based therapies to treat Pseudomonas infections in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The funding to Snipr Biome — which plans to use gene editing technology to improve the viruses’ ability…

Researchers have developed nanoparticles that can deliver gene-editing therapeutics to correct genetic defects in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The nanoparticles were optimized using cell-based models to penetrate the thick airway mucus seen in CF. Pretreating patients with the approved mucus-clearing agent Pulmozyme (dornase alfa)…

A University of Iowa biomedical researcher was awarded the Yergin-New International Prize for his work in understanding cystic fibrosis (CF) — with discoveries that helped reveal the mechanisms underlying the genetic condition, and led to the development of a new animal model of CF that captures key features of…

SPL84, an investigational inhalation therapy designed to treat cystic fibrosis (CF) caused by a specific mutation called 3849+10 kb C-to-T, was well tolerated in a Phase 2 clinical trial. Trial data also suggest that most CF patients treated with SPL84 experienced improvements in a measure of lung function, according…

Researchers have identified three groups of symptoms with interconnected severity — respiratory-energy, mood-gastrointestinal irritability, and pain-gastrointestinal abnormal motility — in people with cystic fibrosis (CF). The severity in each group was associated with clinical and demographic factors, including lung function, treatment with standard CFTR modulators, age, ethnicity, and…

The first participants have been dosed in a clinical trial that’s testing some of Sionna Therapeutics’ investigational treatments for cystic fibrosis (CF). The Phase 1 study (NCT07035990) is testing SION-451 with either SION-2222 or SION-109 in healthy volunteers, with the main goal being to evaluate the safety…

Northwestern University scientists developed a wearable patch that could help cystic fibrosis (CF) patients manage their disease from home. A study showed that the patch, developed in collaboration with scientists at Epicore Biosystems, measured sweat chloride in test participants as effectively as the gold standard method for sweat chloride assessment…