This compound will enter initial clinical trials early next year for skin and lung fibrosis.

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Most was to pay for the development of new medicines for chronic lung diseases such as cystic fibrosis and emphysema, which can, in theory, be made from proteins in the milk of a cloned flock.

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TOBI, a version of the antibiotic tobramycin, designed to treat fatal lung infections in patients with cystic fibrosis.

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Vertex already sells a drug called Kalydeco, which causes unprecedented improvements in the lung function of patients with cystic fibrosis if it is caused by a genetic mutation called G551D.

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The comic wanted to be entirely free of the drug - which he had used to treat pulmonary fibrosis, an inflammatory lung disease - and be back to his normal weight by March.

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Pirfenidone is InterMune's investigational drug candidate for the treatment of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis to reduce decline in lung function.

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Professor Danny McAuley from the Centre for Infection and Immunity, a partner in developing the new nanomedicine, said that, if successful, this nanomedicine could also have application in other common lung disorders such as Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Cystic Fibrosis.

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