Possible Diabetes Breakthrough

Good News Notes: Crucial to the diabetes picture is the pancreas, responsible, among other things, for the production of insulin.  Since diabetes revolves issues with the right amount of this critical component a lot of research has focused on this organ.  Most of the advances over the years have come in the form of regulating…

How a Pharmaceutical Company Developed a Breakthrough Treatment for Cystic Fibrosis

Good News Notes: “In June 1989, Dr. Lap-Chee Tsui and Dr. Francis Collins, two geneticists, pinpointed the gene responsible for cystic fibrosis, the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene.” “In the decade that followed, scientists experimented with gene therapy, a method of replacing defective genes with healthy ones, but to no avail.” “Eventually, in…