Drug takes no nonsense from cystic fibrosis

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"Some types of genetic disease, such as cystic fibrosis, may be beaten by overcoming the "nonsense" mutations that cause them, researchers say. They have now identified a drug that appears to correct this kind of genetic defect in mice."

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