Sentences with phrase «individual cystic fibrosis patients»

For example, organoids grown from the guts of individual cystic fibrosis patients are used to predict their response to drugs.

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We hope this leads to the ability to design, study and test new therapies for every patient on their own cells in the lab, leading to new treatments and breakthroughs in personalized medicine for individuals with a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis,» explained lead author Katherine McCauley, a PhD student at BUSM.

If effective in humans, the vaccine could help control a dangerous form of pneumonia that mainly afflicts hospitalized patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis.

The 65Roses team is a group of individuals who run and raise money to financially assist cystic fibrosis patients cared for at the Augusta University Cystic Fibrosis Ccystic fibrosis patients cared for at the Augusta University Cystic Fibrosisfibrosis patients cared for at the Augusta University Cystic Fibrosis CCystic FibrosisFibrosis Center.

Copper deficiency may occur in preterm infants, infants fed with cow's milk formula, chronic alcoholics, individuals with cystic fibrosis, Crohn's or celiac disease or other small intestinal disorder affecting absorption of copper, gastric bypass (bariatric surgery for weight loss)[3], kidney patients on hemodialysis, those who take zinc supplements or a metal binder penicillamine and in individuals with hereditary disorders of copper metabolism [1].