A fax in 1989 changed the direction of Dr. Mike Welsh's research into cystric fibrosis. Francis Collins and Lap-Chee Tsui, and their teams had discovered three missing letters in the DNA of a group of people with CF. Armed with the knowledge of how cystric fibrosis created problems in the lungs of patients, his team started on decades of work to try and fix it. Tap the link in our bio for the next installement of Miracle of Breath. #cysticfibrosis #medicalresearch #iowa #universityofiowa