CysticFibrosis
CysticFibrosis
WHAT IS CYSTIC FIBROSIS AND WHO DOES IT AFFECT:
Every year, 1,000 children with cystic fibrosis are born in the United States.
1 in 3,000 Caucasian babies have the disorder, making Cystic Fibrosis one
of the most common lethal genetic diseases in Caucasians. Overall, there are
30,000 Americans with Cystic Fibrosis, and an estimated 8 million people
carry one copy of the defective gene that causes the disease. These carriers
do not have symptoms of Cysitc Fibrosis, because a …
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…dietary fat that is un-absorbed. those are just some of the many
tests that we have for Cystic Fibrosis.
GENE THERAPY
It is not yet possible but process is being made in finding out how to
do gene therapy. Scientists in the laboratory have grown cells from
the nose of a Cystic Fibrisis patient. The chloride defect has been
correctedin small regions of the nasal cavity. They are giving the
normal genes through nose drops.
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