IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twenty-six scientific abstracts by international researchers studying the cause and treatments for cystinosis, a rare and fatal metabolic disease that afflicts mostly children, have been published in the October 2008 issue of Pediatric Nephrology. The abstracts also can be reviewed at: www.natalieswish.org/abstracts, the website of the Cystinosis Research Foundation, which has committed more than $6.5 million for research.