POSTS TAGGED AS cystic fibrosis

Simpler Method for Growing Lung Organoids

Human airway epithelial organoids
“We [at University of Freiburg] describe a simple method to generate organoid cultures using isolated human tracheobronchial [MORE]

Microfluidic Chip that Mimics Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis-mimicking airway tissue on-a-chip
“Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute created a microfluidic chip that mimics the airway of patients with [MORE]

Gene Editing for Cystic Fibrosis

Evaluating CRISPR-based prime editing for cancer modeling
“Prime editing is a recently reported genome editing tool using a nickase-cas9 fused to [MORE]

A Gene Bypass

Bypasing gene mutations
“We [biologists and biochemists at Penn State] have developed a novel gene correction strategy, Co-opting Regulation Bypass Repair [MORE]

Inhaling mRNA

Cystic fibrosis nebulizer treatment
Cystic fibrosis is a terrible suffocating disease for both children who are afflicted and parents who suffer [MORE]

Phage Therapy

Genetically engineered phage therapy
A teenage girl developed an antibiotic-resistant infection following a lung transplant to treat cystic fibrosis.  Her prospects [MORE]

An Aerosol Biopsy for Lung Disease

 
Aerosol biopsy
Deton (Pasadena, CA) currently manufactures a device that collects coughed-up lung bacteria and evaluates the sample in a point-of-care [MORE]

Digestive Enzyme Cartridge

Relizorb
For patients suffering from various digestive system cancers, malnourishment from an inability to utilize fats can worsen already serious disease. [MORE]

“Lung-on-a-Chip”

Lung-on-a-Chip
This piece is a follow up on an earlier story in Tagline about the Wyss Institute’s microfluidics chip used [MORE]

Growing Lung Tissue in Vitro

Cystic Fibrosis
One of the reasons cystic fibrosis remains incurable is that researchers have not, until now, been able to [MORE]

Microarray Diagnostic for Cystic Fibrosis

Over 1,500 DNA mutations have been implicated in cystic fibrosis, and as much as 5% of Caucasians have one [MORE]