Cystic Fibrosis Organoids, with a Mutation in CFTR (Left) and Repaired (Right) (IMAGE)

Hubrecht Institute

Cystic Fibrosis Organoids, with a Mutation in CFTR (Left) and Repaired (Right)

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Organoids with cystic fibrosis (left) that do not swell due to a mutation in the CFTR-gene and organoids in which this mutation is repaired (right) that do swell because the CFTR-gene is functional again.

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Eyleen de Poel en Maarten Geurts, copyright UMC Utrecht and Hubrecht Institute

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