Cells called alveolar myofibroblasts, which have a central role in the development of the lung after birth, receive an orchestrated input from a range of different signaling pathways.

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The editor’s pick for this issue is a review article discussing the promise of hyperpolarised xenon MRI, a non-invasive ...

Christopher Chen and his team at Boston University and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have invented a new approach to solve this complex problem called ESCAPE (engineered sacrificial ...

“A chronic cough is often the first symptom which, over time, becomes more persistent,” notes Chaggar. “As COPD progresses, ...

Treatment focuses on management of symptoms. This includes medications to ease cough and physical discomfort and to lower fever.

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Scientists in Seoul have engineered a microbubble air purifier inspired by the human respiratory system, offering a solution ...

Although capnography is not able to tell everything we need to know about all our patients, for many patients, capnography is one of the most reliable and real-time measurements that we can use in the ...

Air keeps moving through your airways until it reaches tiny balloon-like air sacs in your lungs called alveoli. From there, the oxygen moves into your blood. Healthy lungs carry oxygen from the ...

With obstructive lung disease (asthma or COPD), an even greater ... In contrast, those particles able to penetrate to the very small airways and alveoli are likely to be deposited by sedimentation ...