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Mitchel Drumm explains how CRISPR is changing cystic fibrosis research

MEDIA | September 25, 2025
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Nobel Prize winner for chemistry creates technology to edit genes

Spectrum News: Mitchel Drumm, the Connie and Jim Brown Professor in Cystic Fibrosis Research, explained how he uses this technology in his research. “You can go in and change the chromosome at that gene and create the disease but then the other side of that is then we can then use those disease models to try to use CRISPR to go and fix them,” said Drumm.

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