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.

Gas exchange is a process that involves the swapping of gases that occurs at exchange surfaces such as the alveoli found within your lungs. Gas exchange allows oxygen to travel into your cells for ...

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 ...