Cystic Fibrosis: Renewed Hopes Through Research (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789535102878)

Living healthy is all one wants, but the genetics behind creation of every human is different. As a curse or human agony, some are born with congenital defects in their menu of the genome. Just one has to live with that! The complexity of cystic fibrosis condition, which is rather a slow-killer, affects various organ systems of the human body complicating further with secondary infections. That's what makes the disease so puzzling for which scientists around the world are trying to understand better and to find a cure. Though they narrowed down to a single target gene, the tentacles of the disease reach many unknown corners of the human body. Decades of scientific research in the field of chronic illnesses like this one surely increased the level of life expectancy. This book is the compilation of interesting chapters contributed by eminent interdisciplinary scientists around the world trying to make the life of cystic fibrosis patients better.

Author: Dinesh Sriramulu
ISBN-10: 9535102877
ISBN-13: 9789535102878
Publisher: Intechopen
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2012
Pages: 566
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.41lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.25d