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Would anyone reading the May, 1959 issue of the American Journal of Diseases of Children have recognized that the article by Mary Ellen Avery and Jere Mead, titled “Surface properties in relation to atelectasis and hyaline membrane disease” [1] would lead to the surfactant replacement therapy that has had such a profound effect on the survival of very premature infants? Probably not. It is more likely that those who leafed through Science in September 1989 and saw Bathseva Kerem's paper [2] describing the sequence of the CFTR gene knew that this would lead to something, which so far has turned into the CFTR modulators.
Source: Paediatric Respiratory Reviews - Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research