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.
The CF gene was discovered in 1989 on chromosome pair 7 -- volume 7 in our genetic encyclopedia -- by researchers supported by the CF Foundation. Cystic fibrosis is an example of a recessive disease. That means a person must have a mutation in both copies of the CF gene to have CF.ystic fibrosis is caused by mutations in the gene that produces the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) protein. This protein is responsible for regulating the flow of salt and fluids in and out of the cells in different parts of the body.