image: Microscopic images comparing mucus flakes from a healthy subject (left) to a flake from a patient with cystic fibrosis (right). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the April 3, 2019, issue of Science Translational Medicine, published by AAAS. The paper, by C.R. Esther at Chapel Hill in Chapel Hill, N.C.; and colleagues was titled, "Mucus accumulation in the lungs precedes structural changes and infection in children with cystic fibrosis." view more
Credit: C.R. Esther <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)