Cardiac fibrosis impacts millions of patients and currently has no effective therapy. Stanford Cardiovascular Institute researchers have uncovered a new mechanosensing-based mechanism that reduces ...

KUTV — Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a rare, progressive, and genetic disease that currently affects about 40,000 people in the United States. CF is the result of a defective gene, inherited from each ...

Could next-generation gene editing mean a cure for cystic fibrosis (CF)? There's been a lot of advancement on the disease in the last decade, but there are still those living with the disease who get ...

Maren Denison, third-year student at the University of Iowa, was in sixth grade when she found out her lung function had ...

"It's not a cure, but it's the closest thing we have," a doctor said. "Imagine waiting 28 years for a miracle, and then it suddenly happens." That's how Gunnar Esiason, a 28-year-old graduate student ...

The cells in human bodies are subject to both chemical and mechanical forces. But until recently, scientists have not understood much about how to manipulate the mechanical side of that equation. That ...