SciShow: New Cystic Fibrosis Treatment a "Game-Changer" | SciShow News

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Content of the Lesson: A new drug treatment based on a genetics discovery from the 80s could dramatically improve the lives of many people with Cystic Fibrosis Check out Hank Green reading Edgar Alan Poe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TaGRUMteWI Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1908639 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(19)32597-8/fulltext https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-new-breakthrough-therapy-cystic-fibrosis https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1911602 https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1164/rccm.200505-840OE https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-genom-090314-050024 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152500161830217X https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201805116 https://www.cff.org/What-is-CF/About-Cystic-Fibrosis/ https://www.statnews.com/2019/10/23/we-conquered-a-disease-how-vertex-delivered-a-transformative-medicine-for-cystic-fibrosis/ https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/health/trikafta-cystic-fibrosis.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2019/10/31/long-awaited-cystic-fibrosis-drug-could-turn-deadly-disease-into-manageable-condition/ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Protein_CFTR_PDB_1xmi.png


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