Re: Really good news on the research for the cure front!!!

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OH WOW!!!! I hope this is something we have all been waiting for!!!! Deb A

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Carole! This is so good because it is a positive potential--the first in

many years! Thank you so much!

Love to you and all of yours,

n Rojas

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It sounds like the nasal spray corrects the function of the cells in

the nasal passage. How will they get the DNA bee bees into the inner

lungs? Where is the trial being done?

Thanks,

Gale

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> This is an amazing story. I hope you can all get to the link!

Patty (12yo

> wcf) has a chance to start the testing and soon that will be

followed by the

> treatment! I am so happy this is being done locally!

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> Carol

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Gale,

The company developing this new genetic approach can be reached in the site

bellow. Its name is Copernicus Therapeutics.

http://www.cgsys.com/index/index.asp

Bellow are the places where this trial is being conducted.

Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Trial Results Encouraging -- Cleveland, OH -

April 29, 2003

Scientists and physicians in Cleveland have announced encouraging results

from the first-of-its-kind gene therapy trial involving cystic fibrosis (CF)

patients and a new compacted DNA technology. The Phase I trial involving 12

patients was launched one year ago by University Hospitals of Cleveland

(UHC), Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) School of Medicine, Children's

Hospital of Denver, and Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Therapeutics, Inc., the

nonprofit drug discovery and development affiliate of the Cystic Fibrosis

Foundation.

Ivan

Re: Really good news on the research for the cure

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> It sounds like the nasal spray corrects the function of the cells in

> the nasal passage. How will they get the DNA bee bees into the inner

> lungs? Where is the trial being done?

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> Thanks,

> Gale

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> > This is an amazing story. I hope you can all get to the link!

> Patty (12yo

> > wcf) has a chance to start the testing and soon that will be

> followed by the

> > treatment! I am so happy this is being done locally!

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> > Carol

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Wow!!! I wonder if they could get the bee bees into the lungs with an inhaler

or a neb?

Really good news on the research for the cure front!!!

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This is an amazing story. I hope you can all get to the link! Patty (12yo

wcf) has a chance to start the testing and soon that will be followed by the

treatment! I am so happy this is being done locally!

Carol