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Nature 438, 1077 (22 December 2005) | doi:10.1038/4381077a; Published online 21 December 2005
In brief
Tobacco giant Philip Morris has embarked on a business alliance aimed at helping premature babies to breathe. The company, based in Richmond, Virginia, has joined up with Discovery Laboratories of Warrington, Pennsylvania, which makes an artificial surfactant — a protein-lipid substance produced in the lungs that is critical for breathing, but often missing from babies who are born more than a month premature.
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