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Cystic fibrosis caused by a small genetic code error

19 May 2022

“With cystic fibrosis, it’s caused by the deletion of a single letter… Imagine a word where, if you remove one letter, it completely reverses the meaning – from FRIEND to FIEND, or something,” said Dr Adam Rutherford (UCL Biosciences).

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