University of Houston professors Wa Xian and Frank McKeon (IMAGE)

University of Houston

University of Houston professors Wa Xian and Frank McKeon

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University of Houston professors Wa Xian and Frank McKeon have discovered five disease-causing stem cells in the lungs of patients with advanced cystic fibrosis, and that these variants drive key aspects of CF pathology including inflammation, fibrosis and mucin secretion.

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