A 26-year-old woman with cystic fibrosis successfully received her third pair of donor lungs after begging doctors to take her case and give her another shot at life. Taylor Stephenson — whose ...
Cystic fibrosis is an inherited condition in which the lungs and digestive system can become clogged with thick, sticky mucus. It can cause problems with breathing and digestion from a young age.
The funding is intended to be used to develop a gene editing therapy that could be delivered into the lung cells of people with cystic fibrosis. ReCode is focused on developing a version of its ...