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- Researchers have found that an antibiotic used for years against common
infections may have the remarkable ability to correct a genetic flaw in cystic
fibrosis, a finding that ultimately may lead to a new way of treating that and
other intractable genetic diseases. Their findings, published recently in the
New England Journal of Medicine, could be applied to other genetic disorders,
including muscular dystrophy, Hurler's syndrome, and various types of hemophilia
and cancer, say Dr. Michael Wilschanski and Prof. Eitan Kerem, who headed the
team. Experts in the field have called their accomplishment a "major
breakthrough" in the treatment of CF. The discovery opens a window on research,
demonstrating that a well-known drug may have the power to influence genes. "The
idea behind this paper is that this concept can be used in other genetic
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