Intro: Cat Speedpaint and How to Make a Speedpaint. Hello everyone! Here is my first speedpaint! A while back, I downloaded Hypercam 2 to start recording some of my digital paintings and drawings, and well, this is ...
John Sackett, current President of Avista - Porter Care Hospital in Louisville, Colorado is the oldest known living person with Cystic Fibrosis - &nbsp;an&nbsp;autosomal&nbsp;recessive&nbsp;genetic disorder&nbsp;that affects most critically thelungs, and also the&nbsp;pancreas,&nbsp;liver, and&nbsp;intestine.
Cystic fibrosis occurs because of mutations in the gene that makes a protein called CFTR (cystic fibrosis transmembrane regulator). A person with CF produces abnormal CFTR protein-or no CFTR protein at all, which causes the body to make thick, sticky mucus instead of the thin, watery kind.Cystic Fibrosis affects both males and females, but is not contagious to healthy individuals.Cystic fibrosis is an inherited disease caused by mutations (changes) in a gene on chromosome 7, one of the 23 pairs of chromosomes that children inherit from their parents.Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes in their DNA. The CF gene is found on chromosome number 7. person with CF produces abnormal CFTR protein-or no CFTR protein at all, which causes the body to make thick, sticky mucus instead of the thin, watery kind. Cystic Fibrosis affects both males and females, but is not contagious to healthy individuals.