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Sun 's Call to Gordon Brown 'Unforgivable'

Matt Cantor — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:38:58 CDT

Learning that your child has a disability is hard enough—but try getting a phone call saying his illness will be front-page news. That’s what happened to Gordon Brown when his family was still coming to terms with his son’s cystic fibrosis: Then- Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, now CEO of...

16-Year-Old Makes Promising Find on Cystic Fibrosis

John Johnson — Thu, 12 May 2011 17:53:20 CDT

Encouraging new research on the treatment of cystic fibrosis comes courtesy of an 11th-grader. Toronto 16-year-old Marshall Zhang figured out via computer simulations that two drugs have the potential to make a powerful combination in treating the disease, reports LiveScience . He then tried out his theory on living cells: "They...

Drug Targets Hundreds of Disorders

Peter Fearon — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 08:42:13 CDT

A magic bullet that could treat cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, hemophilia and more than 1,800 other genetic disorders could be available by 2009. Lee Sweeney of UPenn, leader of the team developing the drug, tells the Times of London: “It doesn’t just target one mutation that causes disease, but...