Breathless genes - Professor Martin Tobin | The Royal Society

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Lung health varies between people. Someone with persistent difficulty exhaling might have chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a condition which leaves them, quite literally, breathless.

Professor Martin Tobin from the Breathless genes exhibit taking part in the 2012 Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition discusses his work.

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