Essays About Cystic Fibrosis

Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a genetic, recessive disorder which affects the lungs and the liver. CF develops when there is a mutation in the gene because it's autosomal recessive it means you would have inherited two copies of the CFTR gene, one from each parent....

Dealing with something you didn’t ask for but are forced to deal with is never easy. Cystic Fibrosis is just that a disorder that you have to live with no matter if you want to or not. It’s an inherited life threatening disorder that damages...

Many illnesses are hereditary; for instance, Huntington’s and Cystic Fibrosis. Other illnesses affected by genes, such as diabetes and cancer. Many advancements make it workable for a solution to target such hereditarily related infections at the sub-atomic levels, and along these lines offer the possibilities...

The journey to survival is often not as rosy as many would like it to be. This was no different for Sarah Murnaghan who had been suffering from cystic fibrosis since birth. Her condition was swiftly deteriorating as both her parents and the doctors never...