A team of medical researchers from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and ReCode Therapeutics has developed a way to send gene-editing tools to the lungs to repair the faulty gene associated with cystic fibrosis.
Lung-targeting lipid nanoparticles with CRISPR components successfully treat cystic fibrosis mouse models retrieved 18 June 2024 from https://phys.org/news/2024-06-lung-lipid-nanoparticles-crispr-components.html
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