A new future for cystic fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis is one of the most common genetically transmitted diseases, causing repeated infections that lead to lung failure.

Gene is linked to lung cancer development in never smokers

A five-center collaborative study that scanned the genomes of thousands of "never smokers" diagnosed with lung cancer as well as healthy never smokers has found a gene they say could be responsible for a significant number of those cancers.