“…Recent publications have highlighted the potential benefit of this technique in investigating early changes in immune function in cystic fibrosis (CF) infants, in the study of the nasal transcriptome of infants, and in the innate immune responses of the airway epithelium to allergens as part of asthma pathogenesis research. (7,9,10) Mosler et al described the culture of nasal epithelial cells from CF infants, some of whom were as young as one-month old, but to date, Miller et al is the only publication describing monolayer culture of nasal epithelial cells from newborn infants. (7)…”