Acts of Friendship. For Ashley, it was like this: She was sitting with a big group in the school lunchroom when she accidentally knocked her drink onto her lap. As word spread that it looked like Ashley had wet herself, the laughter began to mount. Then she noticed her best friend doing something strange.
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Enzyme replacement therapy is a relatively new type of treatment. As more is discovered about the genome and about the cellular function of proteins, new forms of enzyme replacement therapy are likely to emerge. second type of enzyme replacement therapy introduces enzymes that have become deficient for some other reason. Cystic fibrosis is caused by the body's failure to produce a particular protein that is crucial to the function of cell membranes.