He delved further into lung development, spending his study leave in 1971 in a lab in the old Radcliffe observatory in Oxford.

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On these occasions I go into a "tipping and turning" iron lung -- a more recent development of the original.

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For years, surgeons had the technical tools to make simple repairs on the heart, but they couldn't help patients until the development of the heart-lung machine made it possible to preserve the body for more than a few minutes without a heartbeat.

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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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This can include second cancers, coronary artery disease, heart failure, lung problems and endocrine disorders (growth function and slow or delayed sexual development).

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The Genentech drug has slowed down colon tumors, non-small cell lung tumors and now breast tumors, and has opened up more areas for development of future medicines.

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Contractures may also play a part in the development of scoliosis, a sideways curvature of the spine that further reduces lung efficiency in people who have muscular dystrophy.

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