The CNIO pave the way for a future gene therapy to reverse pulmonary fibrosis associated with ageing

"Our results indicate that a new therapy may be developed to prevent the development of pulmonary fibrosis associated with ageing," says CNIO's Maria Blasco, principal investigator of the study* Lung tissue of patients with pulmonary fibrosis does not regenerate because the cells involved in lung generation have damaged telomeres, the ends of the chromosomes. The new study describes a gene therapy that activates the enzyme that repairs telomeres