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Potential cystic fibrosis treatment uses ‘molecular prosthetic’ for missing lung protein

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An approved drug normally used to treat fungal infections could also do the job of a protein channel that is missing or dysfunctional in the lungs of people with cystic fibrosis, operating as a prosthesis on the molecular scale, says new research.