{"id":98044,"date":"2019-11-01T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/studies-yield-impressive-results-in-fight-against-cystic-fibrosis"},"modified":"2019-11-01T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T17:22:35","slug":"studies-yield-impressive-results-in-fight-against-cystic-fibrosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/studies-yield-impressive-results-in-fight-against-cystic-fibrosis","title":{"rendered":"Studies Yield \u2018Impressive\u2019 Results in Fight Against Cystic Fibrosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/studies-yield-impressive-results-in-fight-against-cystic-fibrosis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A pair of new studies report \u201cimpressive\u201d benefits from a drug therapy for cystic fibrosis, a deadly and devastating disease that affects tens of thousands of people worldwide, the director of the National Institutes of Health wrote in <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMe1911602?query=recirc_curatedRelated_article\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">an editorial published<\/a> in The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese findings indicate that it may soon be possible to offer safe and effective molecularly targeted therapies to 90 percent of persons with cystic fibrosis,\u201d wrote the director, Dr. Francis S. Collins, who led the team that in 1989 <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/08\/23\/us\/research-group-reports-success-in-finding-gene-for-cystic-fibrosis.html?module=inline\" title=\"\">identified the gene<\/a> that causes the genetic disease affecting the lungs and digestive system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be a cause for major celebration,\u201d he wrote in the Thursday editorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pair of new studies report \u201cimpressive\u201d benefits from a drug therapy for cystic fibrosis, a deadly and devastating disease that affects tens of thousands of people worldwide, the director of the National Institutes of Health wrote in an editorial published in The New England Journal of Medicine on Thursday. \u201cThese findings indicate that it [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}