The search for relevant cell culture research in cystic fibrosis: one researcher's opinion.

Recently there has been a plethora of research approaches using cell culture 
to study cystic fibrosis. Although these efforts can be lauded as 
attempts to understand one of the most common genetic disorders affecting 
the Caucasian population, such research should be relevant to the clinical 
entity known as cystic fibrosis. The ultimate objectives of this research 
should be to determine the, as yet unknown, basic defect and 
to develop an assay for heterozygote detection. 